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A new website is now available introducing the British Library/Brightsolid newspaper digitization partnership. Actual newspaper content won’t be available until the fall with the first release of one million pages of pre-1900 newspapers, the initial fruit for a project which should lead to 4 million pages in the next two years and 40 million pages over the ten year life of the agreement.

http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

May 20, 2011 at 1:09am ET by Matt McGee

Google’s ambitious effort to digitize the world’s newspaper archives and make them available online has come to an end.

The project launched in 2008, and it currently has digitized material from what looks like about 2,000 newspapers — including the Milwaukee Sentinel, whose July 21, 1969 front page is shown at right.

But rumors have been circulating that this move was coming, and a Google spokesperson gave us this statement confirming the shut down tonight:

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Joe Sabia says, “This is a sign that hangs from the wall of my local public library in Milford, Connecticut. It’s a large but quaint building occupied by maybe 6 or so people, and 3 elderly kind women at the check out desk.” Click for larger size.