My friend Holly is mistaken about this one.  Unless someone moved them
overnight ;-) the original records presented on  the Library of Congress's
Web site http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html are in the
collections of the Library's Manuscript Division.

Karen Stuart


On 3/1/07, Holly Mills <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 3/1/2007 2:55:13 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> Kevin and Anita make excellent points about these narratives--which
> are, be it noted, on the *Library of Congress*  Web site
> (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html), not that of the
> National Archives!
> Please don't confuse the digitized with the original.  The original
> records
> of the Works Progress Administration are at the National Archives (Record
> Group
> 69).  Yes a number of these have been digitized and available through the
> Internet, but not all of the information found on Library of Congress'
> website is
> in original at the Library of Congress.  It is simply the "host site" for
> databases of information all over the country (the world?).  Just because
> the
> digitized versions are accessed through an LC hosted site doesn't mean
> that LC is
> the location of the originals.
>
> Additionally, many of these have been published and/or sample-collected by
> many individuals and organizations doing research.  It can be easy to
> confuse
> someone's collection of notes, especially if extensive, with the
> originals.
>
> Holly
> Amherst
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