American Memory: Technical summary
URL
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshome.html
Collection Overview
- Description
-
Books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign,
donated in 1938 by Carrie Chapman Catt, longtime president of the
National American Woman Suffrage Association. Includes works from the
libraries of other members and officers of the organization including:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone
Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Mary A. Livermore.
- Source collection
- Selected from Library of the National American Woman Suffrage
Association
Collection and its president Carrie Chapman Catt, Rare Book and Special
Collections Division.
LCCN
96-117462 [Link to catalog record (z39.50 query) will
not work when main cataloging system is not available.]
- Technical features
-
Searchable text for medium length documents (average less than 100 pages
per document) written by different authors in different periods, diverse
vocabulary offers challenges in pinpointing paragraphs on same (detailed)
topic.
- Original material formats
-
- Printed matter (documents), English language.
- Ephemera (pictorial items or documents without searchable text)
- Number of original items
- 167
- Status of collection
- Available online as of November 1997.
- Public access:
- The Library of Congress is not aware of any copyright or any other
restrictions in the documents in this collection.
See notes on rights and
restrictions provided by the Library to users of this collection.
Aids to intellectual access
- Type & granularity
- MARC bibliographic records. Each bib. record describes a single item.
Sample
bibliographic display in American Memory.
- Linking to digital reproductions
- Bibliographic record contains identifier
used in "directory name" for each metaobject representing a document.
[Sample directory]
Numbering system in place to link searchable text to page images and
illustration images.
Last character of filename indicates image type for ephemera.
Digital reproductions
Total file-space for digital reproductions:
564 Mbytes
| Printed
Matter
(documents) |
Archival text file |
Page images |
Printing
version images for
illustrations |
| Marker |
Filename extension
".sgm" |
Filename no hyphen |
Filename includes hyphen |
| Formats |
SGML |
TIFF Group IV |
TIFF or PCX |
| DTD |
American Memory
(TEI conformant) |
n/a |
n/a |
| Tonal
resolution |
n/a |
1 bit |
1 bit |
Spatial
resolution
(approx) |
n/a |
300 dpi |
300 dpi (random-pattern
dithering) |
| Quantity
(approx) |
155 |
10,000 (est.) |
<1,000 (est.) |
| File size |
7-700 Kbytes |
40-80 Kbytes |
10-20 Kbytes |
| Sample |
Sample SGML
document |
Sample
page-image |
Sample
illustration |
| Ephemera |
Archival image |
Service image |
Inline thumbnail |
Additional thumbnail |
| Marker |
Filename ends "u" |
Filename ends "r" |
Filename ends "t" |
Filename ends "t" |
| Formats |
TIFF uncompressed |
JPEG/JFIF |
GIF |
TIFF |
| Tonal
resolution |
24 bit (color)
8 bit (grayscale) |
24 bit (color)
8 bit (grayscale) |
8 bit |
8 bit |
Spatial
resolution
(approx) |
1000x700 pixels |
1000x700 pixels |
100x150 pixels |
100x150 pixels |
| Quantity
(approx) |
12 |
12 |
12 |
12 |
| Sample |
Sample
archival |
Sample
service |
Sample
thumbnail |
Sample
thumbnail |
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