Friday, June 24, 2016

Internet Archive: Browsing the Archive

The following is from the Internet Archive.

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GUESS WHAT WE FIND IN ALL THOSE BOOKS WE SCAN?

Among the three million books we’ve scanned, some pretty amazing things have fallen out from between the pages--bits of history, long forgotten by the iconic figures who left them there. Jeff Sharpe, Coordinator for our Midwest Regional Digitization Center, recounts the treasures his team has found--and left in digital form--between the pages, including this survey report from 1797 penned by Daniel Boone. You can read the notes by Abe Lincoln, Aaron Burr and more here. And take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Digitization Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana below. 

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