CNN.com - Rare historic documents lost to Katrina - Nov 2, 2005

[Walter Henry <whenry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rare historic documents lost to Katrina
New Orleans archives dating back to 1892
CNN
Wednesday, November 2, 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/11/02/katrina.history.ap/
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press

  This article reports on damage to archives in the Gulf Coast region.

  *   Pass Christian Historical Society headquarters washed away
      and most of collection of town ledgers and old newspapers
      lost

  *   The Director of the Hancock County Historical Society in Bay
      St. Louis had been making surrogate copies of important
      documents and 30,000 images, many onto digital media and
      stored offsite at the University of Southern Mississippi

  *   City Park archives were submerged for several weeks. Losses
      included four drawers of photographs (1890- ), including glass plate
      negatives, architectural drawiings, photographic prints, and
      scrapbooks, none of which had been copied.

  *   The New Orleans Notarial Archives was not damaged