Google made purchases of 20 million digitized historical newspaper pages from PaperofRecord.com — an asset to Google digitizing newspaper archives initiative, announced in September.

PaperofRecord is based in Canada and was the first to digitize the entire history of the Toronto Star. In addition to digitizing newspapers in Canada, the United States, Mexico and Europe, PaperofRecord has digitized historical documents including he Diaries of William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's longest serving Prime Minister is a fine example of the technology utilizing digitization techniques combined with handwritten and typewritten pages.
http://king.collectionscanada.ca/EN/default.asp.

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