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AbstractHistoryArchive Description
Type of Media
Newspapers, regional newspapers and magazines
Access for Researchers
Requests considered on case-by-case basis
Content Summary
- Editions of "The Examiner" on microfilm, 1842-present
- Clippings index for "The Examiner", 1970-2000
- "Weekly Courier" magazine - bound volumes and index, 1901-1935
- "Weekly Examiner/Tasmanian" - bound volumes, 1872-1895
- "Saturday Evening Express" - bound volumes, 1924-1984
- Regional newspapers published by "The Examiner", including "East Coast News", "Launceston Times", "Northern Midlands News", "Meander Valley News" and "Tamar Times" (and their predecessor papers), in bound volumes and on microfilm
- Photographs: selection of black and white negatives to 1970, then more complete collection, 1970-present
Comments
"The Examiner" was founded in 1842 as a weekly, eventually becoming a daily in 1877. It is currently part of Fairfax Media.
"The Examiner" has been digitised up until 1954 by the National Library of Australia’s newspaper digitisation project and can be accessed on the library’s Trove webpage.
The State Library of Tasmania holds an extensive collection of "The Examiner". The Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston has a collection of company and other documents for the years 1889 to 1945.
Keywords
newspapers, regional newspapers, magazines, "The Examiner", "Weekly Courier", "Tasmanian", "Saturday Evening Express", index, Fairfax Media
Contact Name
The Examiner Newspaper Editorial Library
Address
71-75 Paterson St, Launceston, Tas 7250. Postal Address: PO Box 99, Launceston, Tas 7250
Phone and Fax
Ph +61 (3) 6336 7111, Fax +61 (3) 6331 4858
library@examiner.com.au
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Affiliation Notes
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This record is included in AustLit because it forms part of the Media Archives Project. AustLit does not comprehensively cover Australian Archives.
