Trying to make a sense out of my newspapers collection/archive...
Almost 26 years worth of paper! 😁
Yeah, I know it's not pretty looking 😅 But I did started with the green/blue method and then I went "Oh, I'll use a yellow folder for the pope" and then it just went all psychedelic! XDD But at least the newspapers are well protected... 😅😅
I don't know exactly how many issues there are in the collection, and many are not even complete newspapers: I just kept some pages or the single article mostly when it comes to local newspapers. I used to cut articles out when I was in middle school and then stick'em into a notebook (as you can see from the last photo below), I've got 11 of those. There are 26 folders full of newspapers in total, plus some loose issues.
When it comes to national newspapers I mostly have issues of La Stampa, Turin's daily. But I also have some Corriere della Sera (published in Milan), La Repubblica (published in Rome) and L'Osservatore Romano (daily newspaper of Vatican City, which is not National technically: it's foreign ^^).
And here are some of the oldest issues I own. The oldest one is actually La Stampa dated 31st December 1999, the dawn of the new millenium:
This actually made me realize I come from an era when newspapers had only the first page in color, everything else was in b/w... damn, I'm old! What a blow to my already poor self-esteem!😅😅🧓
I've seen Kofi Annan Secretary of the UN and Jacques Chirac President of France and I still haven't achieved anything in my life! 🫤
