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Delpher is a website providing full-text Dutch-language digitized historical newspapers, books, journals and copy sheets for radio news broadcasts. The material is provided by libraries, museums and other heritage institutions [1] and is developed and managed by the Royal Library of the Netherlands. Delpher is freely available and includes as of June 2022 in total over 130 million pages from about 2 million newspapers, 900,000 books and 12 million journal pages that date back to the 15th century. [2]

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  1. "Delpher". University Library. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Wat zit er in Delpher?". Delpher. Delpher. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

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