While
Google digitizes the masterworks of English literature, a Seattle
company has begun digitizing newspapers from the smallest towns in the
U.S. and offering them on the web. SmallTownPapers
has been digitizing newspaper archives for free and giving them a
presence online, while preserving a rich – and searchable – historical
record. Through the project's website, browser can see an archived
newspaper as it was printed and can also search through articles and
advertisements, and look for photos.