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Greetings...
NEW! Jefferson Papers, first release online. (see below for full announcement)
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mtjhtml/mtjhome.html>
UPDATE! The Balkans have been added to Kosovo in the Places in the News
feature. <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/plnews.html>
COMING! "William P. Gottlieb Collection: Photographs from the Golden Age
of Jazz"
The William P. Gottlieb Collection, comprising over sixteen hundred
photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938
to 1948 in New York City and Washington, D.C. In 1938 Gottlieb began
working for the Washington Post, where he wrote and illustrated a weekly
jazz column--perhaps the first in a major newspaper. After World War II he
was employed as a writer-photographer for Down Beat magazine, and his work
also appeared frequently in Record Changer, the Saturday Review, and
Collier's. During the course of his career, Gottlieb took portraits of
prominent jazz musicians and personalities, including Louis Armstrong, Duke
Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines,
Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Ray McKinley, Coleman Hawkins, Ella
Fitzgerald, and Benny Carter. This online collection presents Gottlieb's
photographs, annotated contact prints, selected published prints, and
related articles from Down Beat magazine.
*****The official TJ papers notice: ******
New American Memory Collection.
Announcing the first release of the Thomas Jefferson Papers
from the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress.
world, the complete collection consists of approximately 27,000
documents. In its online presentation, the Thomas Jefferson Papers
will comprise approximately 83,000 images. The first release offers
20,000 images of correspondence dating from 1621 through 1789 plus
manuscript volumes relating to seventeenth and eighteenth-century
Virginia history collected by Jefferson. This project is funded by
Reuters America, Inc., and The Reuter Foundation.
The collection is organized into nine Series or groupings.
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and drafts of documents make
up two-thirds of the Papers and document Jefferson's activities as a
delegate to the second Continental Congress, his drafting of the
Declaration of Independence, June-July 1776, his position as
governor of Virginia, 1779-81, his return to Congress as a representative,
1783-84, and his appointment as minister plenipotentiary in Europe and
then minister to the Court of Louis XVI, succeeding Benjamin Franklin,
1784-89. Well documented are his two administrations as president from
1801 through 1809, when he engineered the purchase of the Louisiana
territory and maintained American neutrality in the conflict between
France and Great Britain that led to the War of 1812. Correspondence,
drawings, maps, and notes document the building of Washington, D.C.
The broad range of Jefferson's intellectual and political interests is
represented by his legal and literary commonplace books, miscellaneous
bound volumes of notes and extracts, and manuscript volumes relating
to seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Virginia history, some of which
were part of the personal library he sold to Congress in 1815. Future
releases will complete the collection.
The First Release includes a portion of General Correspondence,
dating from 1621 through 1789, During this period. Jefferson's
activities as a delegate to the second Continental Congress, his
drafting of the Declaration of Independence, June-July 1776, his
position as governor of Virginia, 1779-81, his return to Congress
as a representative, 1783-84, and his appointment as minister
plenipotentiary in Europe and then minister to the Court of
Louis XVI, succeeding Benjamin Franklin, 1784-89. Jefferson's
intellectural and and all of Series 8, relating to Virginia history,
from 1606-1737, was in April 1999 (together, about 20,000 images).
More transcriptions to accompany images in Series 1, General
Correspondence, will be available in a future release. This
project is funded by Reuters America, Inc., and The Reuter Foundation.
Correspondence, memoranda, notes, and drafts of documents make up
two-thirds of the Papers and document Well documented are his two
administrations as president from 1801through 1809, when he engineered
the purchase of the Louisiana territory and maintained American neutrality
in the conflict between France and Great Britain that led to the War of 1812.
Correspondence, drawings, maps, and notes document the building of
Washington, D.C. The broad range of Jefferson's intellectual and political
interests is represented by his legal and literary commonplace books,
miscellaneous bound volumes of notes and extracts, and manuscript
volumes relating to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Virginia history,
some of which were part of the personal library he sold to Congress in 1815.
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Elizabeth L. Brown, Reference Librarian, etc.
National Digital Library Program, LIBN/NDL/VC(1330)
Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540-1330
ebro@loc.gov telephone: 202/707-2235
Library of Congress American Memory Home Page:
http://memory.loc.gov/
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