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Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History Digitizing the Nelson Daily News

When I first arrived in Nelson, to take up the role of Archivist at Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History in 2017, I was immediately struck by the size of the museum’s bound newspaper collection. The great bulk of this collection consists of the . The was founded in 1902,

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