A Twitter/X bot sharing historical gems from Panama's digital newspaper archives
🌐 Profile: @HIlustrada on X
⏳ Posts: Vintage ads, news clippings, and illustrations from Panama’s past
🥶 Made: @ericlucerog on X
Hemeroteca Ilustrada is an automated bot that rescues visual memories from Panama’s digitized newspapers and magazines, curated mainly from the public archives of the Biblioteca Nacional de Panamá (BINAL).
Each post showcases:
- 🎭 Quirky vintage advertisements
- 📰 Historical headlines and illustrations
- 🖋️ Typography and graphic design from bygone eras
- 🏙️ Glimpses of Panama’s cultural and social history
This project would not be possible without the digitization efforts of the Biblioteca Nacional de Panamá (BINAL), which preserves and provides free access to Panama’s newspaper archives.
¡Gracias al equipo de la Hemeroteca de BINAL por su trabajo invaluable!
The bot prioritizes:
- Visual interest (striking ads, illustrations, layouts)
- Cultural snapshots (everyday life, fashion, products)
- Historical significance (events, trends, forgotten stories)
- Language: Python based
- Hosting: Hosted on Github (...and locally)
- Source: BINAL’s Hemeroteca Digital and every place I found images.
- Schedule: Posts with a daily basis.
- Follow @HIlustrada and engage with posts
- Share discoveries with #PanamaHistórico or #HemerotecaBINAL
- Suggest features via DM
📜 "Rescatando la memoria impresa de Panamá, un recorte a la vez."
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