LOC Announces American Notes: Travels In America

The Library of Congress recently announced a new exhibit, American Notes: Travels in America 1750-1920, at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml .

There are two sections to the exhibit. There's a set of over 250 narratives by Americans and foreign visitors about their travels in America. Then there's a 32-volume set of manuscript sources called Early Western Travels 1748-1846 (which itself was published between 1904 and 1907.)

In addition to the usual subject and title index, this collection also has an author index which covers "A.C." to "Yankee Girl." More recognizable names include Charles Dickens, James Fenimore Cooper, and Washington Irving.

Most of the items I looked at were books and shorter printed items, with titles like "Dead Towns of Georgia," "Palmer's Journal of travels over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846," and "Wyeth's Oregon." Pages are available as scanned in TIFF files (though I did see one item that was ASCII and not pages images) -- the images weren't perfect but easy to read.

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