On September 15th we will be removing from Fold3 some of the newspapers that came from two of our partners, SmallTownPapers® and Gannett. This is due to contractual issues and we have no plans to remove any other content from the site. Here are a few questions that you may have about this change: Which titles will…
In celebration of Halloween this coming weekend, we thought we would share some spooky, surprising and macabre stories about Edgar Allen Poe, UFO’s, horrific newspaper articles and more that all come from documents found on fold3.com. If you’ve come across any spooky stories in your research, please share them in a comment on this post….
Before Mark Spitz – and way before Michael Phelps – America’s swimming rockstar was Henry Elionsky, a celebrity so famous he often was referred to only by his last name. Starting in the mid-1910s, the 265-pound long distance swimmer from New London, CT began performing remarkable feats of strength and endurance in the water. Including:…
With their hit phonograph machine, the Victrola, Victor Talking Machine Company was the Apple of their day. At the height of their success in 1917, more than 500,000 hand-powered Victrolas were being sold each year. But Thomas Edison, who had invented the phonograph many years earlier, never understood what it could do best – entertain….
