American Memory: Technical summary
URL
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/wwhome.html
Collection Overview
- Description
-
Four Walt Whitman notebooks and cardboard butterfly that disappeared from
the Library of Congress in 1942, returned on February 24, 1995. Some of
the notebooks were made during the Civil War and include notes pertaining
to WW's service to wounded soldiers in hospitals.
- Source collection
- Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman
, Manuscript
Division.
LCCN
mm81-045443 [Link to catalog record (z39.50 query) will
not work when main cataloging system is not available.]
- Technical features
-
Handwritten notes, each note very short, no transcription exists,
challenging pencilled writing in grayscale images.
- Original material formats
-
- Manuscripts (documents), English language, handwritten.
- Ephemera (pictorial items or documents without searchable text)
- Number of original items
- 5
- Status of collection
- Available online as of November 1997.
- Public access:
- The Library is not aware of any restrictions that inhibit public
access to this collection. See notes on rights and
restrictions provided by the Library to users of this collection.
Aids to intellectual access
- Type & granularity
- Five-entry menu
(as HTML page). Each entry describes a single item.
- Linking to digital reproductions
-
Menu invokes page-turning interface with
identifier
used in "directory name" for each metaobject.
Numbering system and page-turning dataset in place
to sequence and present page images.
Filenames indicate "in" and "out" sides of paper butterfly; filename
extension differentiate types.
Digital reproductions
Total file-space for digital reproductions:
2 Gbytes
| Manuscripts
(documents) |
Archival page image |
Service page image |
Image for page-turning
|
| Marker |
Filename extension
".tif" |
Filename extension ".jpg" |
Filename extension ".gif" |
| Formats |
TIFF uncompressed |
JPEG |
GIF |
| Tonal
resolution |
8 bit grayscale |
8 bit grayscale |
4 bit grayscale |
Spatial
resolution
|
300 dpi |
150 dpi |
150 dpi |
| Quantity
(approx) |
500 |
500 |
500 |
| Sample |
Sample archival |
Sample
service |
Sample
page-turning |
| Ephemera |
Service image |
Inline thumbnail |
| Marker |
Filename extension ".jpg" |
Filename extension ".gif" |
| Formats |
JPEG/JFIF |
GIF |
| Tonal
resolution |
24 bit (color) |
8 bit (color) |
| Spatialresolution |
1100x981 pixels |
224x200 pixels |
| Quantity |
2 |
2 |
| Sample |
Sample
service |
Sample
thumbnail |
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