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Hi,
I am trying to put together a citation for a death notice found in an online newspaper archive, specifically for The Milwaukee Journal published 20 October 1947. It can be found at:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=jvrRlaHg2sAC&dat=19471020&printsec=frontpage&hl=en
My citation starts out to be very straightforward (using EE 14.22 – Newspapers (Online Images)):
Source List Entry:
Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Journal, 1884-1995.
First Reference Note:
“Death Notices – Clara Nungesser,” The Milwaukee Journal, 20 October 1947, p. 9, col. 1; digital images, Google News Archives (http://news.google.com/newspapers : accessed 21 February 2014).
Except I do not believe the Reference Note is complete.
Scanning the 39 pages included in the online archive reveals that there were four editions published on that date: the first two are simply headed “The Milwaukee Journal”, while the third is “Journal Final” and the fourth is “The Milwaukee Journal Green Sheet.” Each edition has unique page numbers.
Looking at the first two editions carefully, the first edition displayed has no additional information in the banner, however, most pages include a “-M” in the header, possibly indicating a “morning” edition. The second edition displayed includes “Sports, Business News, Classified Ads” and “Local News, Features, Picture Page” in the banners, and a “-L” in the header of most pages, possibly indicating a “late” edition.
In order for someone to find the source from my citation, I believe that my reference note needs to indicate that I am referring to page 9 of the second edition shown in the online archive for 20 Oct 1947, the edition with the “-L” pages. I have thought of two possible approaches. One is to add a comment at the end of my reference note “The referenced page number is found in the second edition published in the Google News Archive for 20 October 1947.” Another approach would be to add a comment at the end of the reference note saying http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=jvrRlaHg2sAC&dat=19471020&printsec=frontpage&hl=en : digital page 29.” There is probably a better method that I am not seeing.
I would appreciate your guidance.
Tom
Tom, it's obvious you are a
Tom, it's obvious you are a careful analyst of what you are using—and EE agrees with you that the citation would not be complete without specififying the edition. Your suggestions above would work. Another simpler way might be this:
“Death Notices – Clara Nungesser,” The Milwaukee Journal, 20 October 1947, "L" [Late?] edition, p. 9, col. 1; digital images, Google News Archives (http://news.google.com/newspapers : accessed 21 February 2014).
Or, if you were citing many things from this newspaper and want to simplify the reuse of the basic citation, you might render it as
The Milwaukee Journal, 20 October 1947, "L" [Late?] edition, p. 9, col. 1, “Death Notices – Clara Nungesser”; digital images, Google News Archives (http://news.google.com/newspapers : accessed 21 February 2014).
Thank you for the suggestion.
Thank you for the suggestion. I was hoping to use something like you suggest, but was not sure whether it would be proper to use the lettering in the heading to indicate a differentiator between editions. I was glad to see that doing so is acceptable.
I have this vision (nightmare?) that one day I wll come across a similar record that I want to use that does not provide any method I can identify to differentiate between editions. I guess for now I should not go looking for trouble!
Tom
Good advice, Tom, there in
Good advice, Tom, there in your last sentence.