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Subject: Re: [Leica] National Archives, photos available
From: "Christopher Williams" <leicachris@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 20:42:24 -0600
References: <36F99BD5.766C219B.00A1E03B@netscape.net>

A photograph of my great-great-great grandfather's house in the late 1690's
was found through the Archives. Photographers surveyed the land around it in
the early 1900's for records.  And it's still in NJ, somewhere!

Chris
New Orleans

Chris Williams
New Orleans

- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Noel Charchuk" Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 12:26 PM
Subject: [Leica] National Archives, photos available


> Came across an interesting link to photographs for sale at the Ntional
Archives.
>
> From the article
>
> Famous photographs
> Images by some of the great Depression-era photographers -- including
Dorthea Lange, Ansel Adams and Lewis Hine -- are just some of the 126,000
images you can find from the National Archives and Records Administration
web site. In fact, NARA is a treasure trove of interesting finds. The agency
doesn't post all of its 9 million photographs and maps on line, but it sells
reproductions of all its collection?
>
> Know a Civil War buff? Find them records or maps from Civil War battles.
And if photography's your thing, you've got plenty to choose from. (The NARA
collection includes shots of, oh, Nixon meeting Elvis, President Clinton
playing the saxophone for Boris Yeltsin and Lange's searing photos of the
Depression. (For more information, click here.) Reproductions aren't
expensive, either – about $20
>
>
> http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/picturing_the_century/home.html



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