Many thanks for thinking of me.
Prof. Jordan
University of Virginia

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:58:58 -0500 Elizabeth Roderick
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi - You might be interested in this new American Memory project -- there
> are some very interesting stereographs relating to Virginia.
>
> Elizabeth
>
>
>  "Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical Society" is the latest
>  addition to the Library's American Memory Web site at
>  <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpcoop/nhihtml/cwnyhshome.html. The
>  online presentation contains materials drawn from 12 collections housed
>  at the New-York Historical Society. The "Civil War Treasures" online
>  collection is a cooperative project of the Library of Congress and the
>  New-York Historical Society.
>
>  Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society houses one of the
>  oldest research libraries and museums in the United States. Collections
>  documenting the Civil War are a particular strength of the society.
>
>  Pictorial items in the digitized Civil War collection include 731
>  stereographs, more than 70 photographs from an album, 178 sketches from
>  three different collections, 304 posters, 29 etchings of caricatures and
>  nearly 500 envelopes with printed or embossed decoration related to
>  Civil War events and personalities. Items from manuscript collections
>  include the first and only issue of The Prison Times handwritten by
>  Confederate prisoners held at Fort Delaware; 32 letters by Sarah Blunt,
>  a nurse in military hospitals at Point Lookout, Md., and Harper's Ferry,
>  West Virginia; and three letters by Walt Whitman. The letters complement
>  the Library's Walt Whitman "Poet at Work" online collection.
>
>  The digitization of "Civil War Treasures from the New-York Historical
>  Society" was made possible through the generous support of the Andrew W.
>  Mellon Foundation.
>
>  Please direct any questions to [log in to unmask]
>
>
>
> --
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