humanities

Search archives and historical newspapers

Search digitised primary sources: historical US newspaper pages (Chronicling America, full OCR text), photographs, maps and manuscripts from the Library of Congress, and cultural heritage items from Europeana. Returns title, date, place, rights statement, thumbnail, item link and a text snippet for each item.

Discipline pack: humanities. Cost: 2 credits per successful call.

post/api/v1/search_archives

Request

  • Base URL: https://scholarmuse.ai
  • URL: https://scholarmuse.ai/api/v1/search_archives
  • Auth: HTTP bearer

Request body

querystring required

Keywords, e.g. "influenza Chicago". For newspapers every word must appear on the page.

type'newspaper' | 'image' | 'manuscript' | 'map' | 'any'

Kind of material (default any).

date_frominteger

Earliest year, e.g. 1918.

date_tointeger

Latest year, e.g. 1918.

sourcesstring[]

Limit to these sources: loc (Library of Congress), europeana. Default: both.

limitinteger

Items to return (default 10).

Response

The tool result.

summarystring required
partialboolean
extraobject
credits_usednumber required
call_idstring required

Example response

{
  "billing": {
    "lowBalanceThreshold": 20
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.