Message-Id: <199912161853.LAA17902@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:02:54 -0500 From: Tamara Swora-Gober <mailto:tswo@LOC.GOV> Subject: LC National Digital Library Program announces update to Words and To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
This announcement is being widely posted.*************************************
The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the Manuscript Division are proud to announce additions to one of the American Memory collections currently online: Words and Deeds in American History at:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/
This collection was created to celebrate the centennial of the Library’s Manuscript Division and its continued work protecting and providing access to the primary resource material that documents the people and organizations that shaped our country.
The first addition to the Words and Deeds collection is a Civil War Photograph Album that is part of the James Wadsworth Family Papers. This album of two hundred, autographed cartes de visite (miniature portraits used as calling cards) is believed to have been compiled by John Hay, a personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln and later a noted political figure in his own right. Included in this leather-bound album are images of military officers, politicians, and cultural figures. People of note include Abraham Lincoln, Montgomery Blair, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edwin Booth, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Salmon P. Chase. The work of twenty photographers or photographic firms is represented, including such notables as Mathew B. Brady, Alexander Gardner, the Whitehurst Gallery of Washington, D.C., and Black and Case Photographic Studios. Patrons can flip through each page of the album or view each image individually. They can also select images to view from two lists: a list of individuals appearing in the album and a list of photographers represented.
The second addition to the collection is a draft of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s The Woman’s Bible. Stanton, who is best known as a suffragist, participated in a number of reform initiatives with her focus on insuring women’s rights in all areas not just in the polling place. One of her most controversial stands was on the Church’s role in limiting women’s progress. In the late 1880s, Stanton began a through study of the Bible. Her work, along with the contributions made by a committee of academic and church women brought together for this project, led to the creation of volume one of The Woman’s Bible. Focusing on only those passages that mentioned women or erroneously omitted women, The Woman’s Bible reproduces the original text followed by a reinterpretation or commentary. The 151 pages of material made available online as part of Words and Deeds contains Stanton’s handwritten text for the books of Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers published in the first volume of her Bible and the book of Matthew published in volume two.
Please direct any questions about the additions to the Words and Deeds online collection to mailto:NDLPCOLL@loc.gov