VA-HIST Archives

Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history

VA-HIST@LISTLVA.LIB.VA.US

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Jurretta Heckscher <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:15:44 -0500
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (49 lines)
Yes, Karen is correct.  Please see the section on "The Archival 
Collection" at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snabout.html for more 
information.

Best wishes,

--Jurretta

On Mar 1, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Karen Stuart wrote:

> 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.
>>

To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions
at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html

ATOM RSS1 RSS2


LISTLVA.LIB.VA.US