An
Analysis of the digital sources of
the
American and Commercial Daily
Advertiser
(Baltimore:
William Pechin, b. 1773, d.
1849, publisher)
The American and Commercial Daily Advertiser began
publication
in September 1802 and ceased December 31, 1853 [v. 108, no. 17890]. It
was published daily, except Sunday. Title history based on September 4,
1802 [v. 5, no. 1034]. It was also published as the American
&
Commercial Daily Advertiser, July 2, 1810-1853. Other
editions
include the American and Commercial Daily Advertiser
(Baltimore: 1826). The newspaper continues the American
and Daily Advertiser (Baltimore: 1799-1802), absorbed the Baltimore
Whig (Baltimore: 1810-1814), and was continued by the American and
Commercial Advertiser (Baltimore: 1854-1856).
This title is is also available online through Google Newspapers:
American
and Commercial Daily Advertiser, 1800-1853,
and through http://genealogybank.com, but users are cautioned that the
issues at both web sites are not complete and are often not of the best
legibility.
This analysis is based upon a
model for
cataloging and tracking newspaper issues created by the American
Antiquarian Society. The
hyperlinks in the calendar lead to the best images available for each
month and issue that could be discovered and in most instances,
created, by the Maryland State Archives.
The
color coding for each day within a month represents the state
of the original paper
holdings of the American Antiquarian Society as of
2013/09/27.
Blue Gray indcates a full issue. A red box indicates a
damaged or
partial issue. For updates and further information
about the holdings of
the American Antiquarian Society visit:
http://clarence.mwa.org/Clarence/
NOTE:
The following search box is limited to the 1814
issues as a test of an off-site search engine. If sufficient funding
can be found to complete the scanning, optical character recognition of
the scanning, and the production of the Papenfuse approach to
e-publication of all surviving issues of this newspaper, the
search engine will encompass all years and be without advertisements.
It should be noted that the OCR (optical character recognition)
of the pages is not perfect although it is better than anything
commerically available at the present time (October, 2013). The
approach to scanning original issues is an innovative, cost
effective one, developed by Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse, Maryland State
Archivist, retired. Comments are welcome and should be sent
to edpapenfuse@gmail.com