Subject: George Washington Papers & Spanish-American War Movies on American Memory Site
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:48:02 -0500
Message-Id: <v02130500b11768b11667@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:48:02 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: david@ninch.org (David Green) Subject: George Washington Papers & Spanish-American War Movies on American Memory Site
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
February 23, 1998
NEW COLLECTIONS ON LIBRARY OF CONGRESS' AMERICAN MEMORY SITE
George Washington Papers 1741-1799
<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html>
The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
<http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html>
Two new collections have recently been posted to the Library of Congress'
AMERICAN MEMORY site. One is the Manuscript Division's first of eight
installments of the complete George Washington papers in the form of
letterbooks. The material is accompanied by a time line, brief essays and
a bibliography. The second is mounted by the Motion Picture, Broadcasting,
and Recorded Sound Division and comprises 53 motion pictures from the
Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection, produced between 1898
and 1901. This was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera
played a role and this web presentation will eventually contain 68 motion
pictures together with sound recordings.
David Green
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Subject: New Collection from the LC National Digital Library
The George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress
The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the
Manuscript Division announce the online publication of the George
Washington Papers at the Library of Congress on the American Memory
Collections homepage: <http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html>
This first release includes forty-one letterbooks (about 8,000)
pages from among 65,000 items to be published online within the next
two years. Included in the collection as a whole are correspondence,
letterbooks, commonplace books, diaries, journals, financial account
books, military records, reports, and notes, accumulated by
Washington from 1741 through 1799. The Library of Congress Manuscript
Division holds 85-90% of extant Washington documents.
Washington's life as a Virginia county surveyor, as colonel of the
militia during the French and Indian Wars, his election as a delegate to
the First and Second Continental Congresses, and his command of the
American Army during the Revolution, and two presidential
administrations are well documented. Because of the breadth of
Washington's activities, his papers are a rich source for almost every
aspect of colonial and early American history, social and cultural, as
well as political.
The Washington Papers was digitized from the Library of Congress
microfilm of the collection. Documents are presented online as GIF
images and also as 200 dpi grayscale JPEG images. Transcriptions,
provided for most documents, are from copyright available published
editions of the Washington Papers. Reference aids include a selected
bibliography, time line or chronology with links to relevant documents,
educational essays about the George Washington Papers, and technical
information on the digitization of the collection and transcriptions.
Project Coordinators
Martha Anderson
Laura Graham (lgrah@loc.gov)
National Digital Library Program
Library of Congress
The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
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The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the Motion
Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division announce the new online
presentation, The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures, available
through the American Memory collections at the Library's home page
(http://lcweb.loc.gov), or directly at:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/sawhtml/sawhome.html
Fifty-three films made from 1898 to 1901 of the Spanish-American War and
the Philippine Insurrection are featured in this first release, timed to
coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the battleship
U.S.S. Maine. Fifteen more films will be added in April 1998, along
with selected sound recordings related to the war. The Spanish-American
War is notable for being the first U.S. war in which the motion picture
camera played a role. The films presented were made by the Edison
Manufacturing Company and the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, and
consist of actualities filmed in the U.S., Cuba, and the Philippines,
showing troops, ships, notable figures, and parades, as well as
reenactments of battles and other war-time events. A special
presentation, entitled "The Motion Picture Camera Goes to War: the
Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection," lists the films
in chronological order and offers essays that provide an historical
context for the filming of the motion pictures. Comprehensive catalog
records are also available for each film title. The motion pictures are
available in MPEG and Quicktime formats for downloading and viewing.
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