Front street, looking North

Front street, looking North

Wilmington, North Carolina ca. 1905-1915.

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Firefox
Firefox will display PDFs in the viewing window, and keyword searches will be highlighted on the page.

Chrome
Google Chrome for Windows uses a built-in PDF reader. The newspapers will display in the viewing window, but highlighting of keyword search results does not work in Chrome. ;In order to search by keyword, users will need to download the page or issue they are interested in searching. Users can also disable the Chrome PDF viewer and use Adobe Reader instead.

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Safari
In Safari, PDFs will only appear in the display window in some versions. Version 5.1.2 does display PDFs inline, but keyword searches are not highlighted. If you are using a version of Safari that does not display PDFs inline, each page or issue will be downloaded and can be opened in the Macintosh Preview application. Once the PDF is opened in Preview, users can conduct keyword searches.

Firefox
In Firefox, PDFs will not appear in the display window. Each page or issue will be downloaded and can be opened in the Macintosh Preview application. Once the PDF is opened in Preview, users can conduct keyword searches.

Chrome
Google Chrome for Macintosh uses a built-in PDF reader. The newspapers will display in the viewing window, but highlighting of keyword search results does not work in Chrome. In order search by keyword, users will need to download the page or issue they are interested in searching.