Tweet TROVE: Australian site has digitized newspapers and more

TROVE: Australian site has digitized newspapers and more

I saw this site mentioned on the TCM forums. It looks pretty useful:

http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

Rick

Harry Langdon's Australian Stage Tour
"Harry Langdon" "Anything Goes" TROVE Search: 135 Results

"Pollard" "Lilliputian" TROVE Search: 2,132 Results
"Snub Pollard" TROVE Search: 1,416 Results

W.C. Fields tours down under
"W. C. Fields" TROVE Search: 642 Results (from 1878-1920)

Gracie Fields and Monty Banks Entertain Australian Soldiers and War Workers; Robbed
"Monty Banks" TROVE Search: 131 Results (Search Confined to 1945)

Fred Allen toured Australia as "Freddy James, the World's Worst Juggler"
"Freddy James" TROVE Search: 194 Results (from 1915-1917)

Leon Errol was born in Australia
"Leon Errol" TROVE Search: 5 Results (from 1880-1905)

Will Rogers Performed in Australia and New Zealand as The Cherokee Kid with the Wirth Brothers Circus
"Wirth Brothers" TROVE Search: 25 Results (from 7/1/1903-4/31/1904)

'Pretty useful' is an understatement. Conservatively, I would estimate I use this site around twenty times per day. Very conservatively.