Thanks, so much, for the news and the offer.  I must admit that I spent a
good part of the weekend being parochial and looking at Virginia-only
sources.... VA Hist Society, Swem & Alderman Libraries, Library of Virginia.

Randy Cabell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jurretta Heckscher" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 1:21 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Photos of Jamestown 1907 Exposition


> Also, you can search the Library of Congress Prints & Photographs
> Online Catalog (PPOC), http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html, on the
> word Jamestown for a wealth of images.  Click "Gallery View" on the hit
> list page to get previews of the images, and note that when you get to
> the bibliographic record for an image you can click on the thumbnail
> there for larger views.
>
> If you search on the string Jamestown Exposition, using the "Match all
> of these words" option, you can narrow your search to photos of the
> 1907 exposition.
>
> Randy or anyone else doing photographic or print research, please feel
> free to contact me off-list if you have additional questions about
> PPOC.
>
> --Jurretta Heckscher
>
> On May 4, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Jon Kukla wrote:
>
>> A lot of LVA and VHS images can be viewed on line - and then can be
>> ordered as prints or electronic image files for publication etc. I've
>> just
>> done that in both instances for my current book project - I'm two hours
>> from Richmond and living on the grounds at Henry's last home, Red Hill
>> --
>> far from any kind of broadband or optic fiber links ...
>>   Try a search on a keyword or subject - in the case of LVA you can
>> limit
>> your search to images.  In the case of VHS you search within the image
>> and artifact collections rather than books and manuscripts.
>> jk
>>
>>> Thanks, Jon for the suggestions.  The first problem I have had in
>>> checking
>>> anybody's site, most specifically the Library of Virginia, is that all
>>> they
>>> have are titles and indexes.  I really need to flip through the
>>> images and
>>> see what they look like.
>>>
>>> The second follows from the first.  I live about as far northwest in
>>> Virginia as one can go without falling across the line into Jefferson
>>> County, WV.  i.e. getting to Richmond is nearly 3 hours and Tidewater
>>> another couple.  It is a good life out here in the boonies, but the
>>> cost
>>> is
>>> being remote.  Why, only in the last 3 months have we been able to
>>> get a
>>> decent high-speed non-satellite internet connection!!!
>>>
>>> Thanks again.
>>>
>>> Randy
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Jon Kukla" <[log in to unmask]>
>>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 9:21 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Photos of Jamestown 1907 Exposition
>>>
>>>
>>>> Have you searched the Library of Virginia website catalogue? Virginia
>>>> Historical Society website catalogue - or checked with the
>>>> Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation?
>>>>
>>>>> Things are falling into place for my Jamestown projects.  Thanks to
>>>>> the
>>>>> Library of Virginia, I have six outstanding color covers of piano
>>>>> music,
>>>>> and will put them into a package with the music itself.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dr. David Diggs at Lehich University will make a CD of music from
>>>>> celebrations of 1807, 1907, and 2007 (the latter so far is only my
>>>>> march
>>>>> THE TRUMPETER OF JAMESTOWN).  And that brings up a question.
>>>>>
>>>>> We would like to put some appropriate picture on the cover,
>>>>> probably of
>>>>> the 1907 celebration.  I have one and have seen a second book on the
>>>>> Exposition, and there are a wealth of photos in both.  Can anybody
>>>>> tell
>>>>> me
>>>>> where those photos reside, and if I can browse through them and see
>>>>> if
>>>>> there is a good one for the CD jacket?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also I would appreciate any other suggestions for a color painting
>>>>> or
>>>>> such
>>>>> which might be appropriate for jacket.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have completed a one-page FANFARES for THE TRUMPTER OF JAMESTOWN
>>>>> and
>>>>> shall be glad to mail it to anybody who needs (or just wants) some
>>>>> fanfares which are typical of that time, and who knows.... part of
>>>>> which
>>>>> may have been played by that elusive trumpeter.
>>>>>
>>>>> Randy Cabell
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