BELOIT — As it begins to move into a new downtown location, the Beloit Daily News has donated materials from its archives to the Beloit Historical Society, the newspaper reported Friday.
Among the items given to the Historical Society were the clips from print editions stored in the newspaper’s “morgue,” along with many years of photos and film negatives. The Daily News also donated microfilm reproductions of printed pages along with a microfilm reader.
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“As one of the oldest businesses in the region, tracing our roots to 1848, the newspaper had a treasure trove of historical materials,” Editor Bill Barth said in the Daily News story about the donations. “Preserving that past for scholarship and community use has been one of our prime motivators in planning for the move to new office space.”
The donations, as well as the move, come as a local developer has signaled interest in buying the former Daily News building. The sale is expected to close by the end of this month.
