American Foreign Language Newspapers (1855 to 1938 - 23 Languages) English Translations USB Drive 116,553 pages of American foreign language newspaper articles translated into English from 23 languages articles dating from 1855 to 1938, archived on USB Drive This collection provides a unique tool to access a wide selection of ethnic newspapers that originally were in a number of different languages from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These newspapers are now difficult or impossible to find anywhere else. The newspaper language groupings included in this collection and the approximate number of pages of articles for each: Albanian American newspapers (91) Bohemian-Czech American newspapers (15,811) Chinese American newspapers (398) Croatian American newspapers (1,321) Danish American newspapers (795) Dutch American newspapers (598) Filipino American newspapers (558) German American newspapers (18,448) Greek American newspapers (10,706) Hungarian American newspapers (2,688) Italian American newspapers (2,950) Jewish American newspapers (16,298) Latin American - Spanish newspapers (1,909) Lithuanian American newspapers (5,963) Norwegian American newspapers (7,654) Polish American newspapers (16,368) Russian American newspapers (5,963) Serbian American newspapers (124) Slovak American newspapers (509) Slovenian American newspapers (197) Swedish American newspapers (6,780) Ukrainian American newspapers (997) Welsh American newspapers (108) The material in this collection was assembled from material produced by the Chicago Foreign Language Press Survey (CFLPS), from 1936 to 1941, conducted by the Chicago Public Library Omnibus Project, funded by the Work Projects Administration (WPA). The WPA was a President Roosevelt New Deal era program intended to provide employment to a wide range of categories of unemployed persons. This project hired writers and sociologists to translate and classify selected news articles. From the introduction written by