Maldon Museum and Archives Association hosted a reception last Friday to celebrate the near completion of the museum’s project to digitalise the Tarrangower Times for the years 1858 to 1910.
In 2021 the museum was a successful recipient of grants from the state government’s Public Records Office Victoria and the Community Bank Maldon District. Two further private donations brought the total raised to almost $36,000 which enabled the project to go ahead.
The State Library of Victoria provided the National Library of Australia (NLA) with microfilms of the newspaper and the Maldon Museum and Archives Association then engaged the NLA to carry out the digitisation project and to make the records available online via the NLA Trove website, thus providing accessible, searchable records for researchers everywhere.
Maldon Museum and Archives Association are proud to have the Tarrangower Times for these years available online to all researchers and students of history and are very appreciative to the funding bodies for realising the value and benefit of the project.
It is hoped that in the future more years will be able to be added.
To explore the new resource go to trove.nla.gov.au