Viral Images: Identifying Reprintings within 1.5 Million Photographs in Chronicling America (opens in new tab)

Within the millions of digitized historic American newspapers in the Chronicling America initiative are tens of millions of photographs, illustrations, cartoons, and advertisements. Much of this visual culture is shared across newspaper titles and issues. Just as reprinted texts within these newspapers speak to the virality of textual content, so too does this reprinted visual culture speak to newspapers as sites of constant information circulat...