LC National Digital Library Program announces update to Words and Deeds Collection

[Tamara Swora-Gober <tswo@xxxxxxx>]

The Library of Congress National Digital Library Program and the
Manuscript Division are proud to announce additions to one of the
American Memory collections currently online: Words and Deeds in
American History at:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/

This collection was created to celebrate the centennial of the Library?s
Manuscript Division and its continued work protecting and providing
access to the primary resource material that documents the people and
organizations that shaped our country.

The first addition to the Words and Deeds collection is a Civil War
Photograph Album that is part of the James Wadsworth Family Papers. 
This album of two hundred, autographed cartes de visite (miniature
portraits used as calling cards) is believed to have been compiled by
John Hay, a personal secretary to Abraham Lincoln and later a noted
political figure in his own right.  Included in this leather-bound album
are images of military officers, politicians, and cultural figures. 
People of note include Abraham Lincoln, Montgomery Blair, Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Edwin Booth, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Salmon P.
Chase.  The work of twenty photographers or photographic firms is
represented, including such notables as Mathew B. Brady, Alexander
Gardner, the Whitehurst Gallery of Washington, D.C., and Black and Case
Photographic Studios. Patrons can flip through each page of the album or
view each image individually.  They can also select images to view from
two lists: a list of individuals appearing in the album and a list of
photographers represented.

The second addition to the collection is a draft of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton?s The Woman?s Bible. Stanton, who is best known as a suffragist,
participated in a number of reform initiatives with her focus on
insuring women?s rights in all areas not just in the polling place.  One
of her most controversial stands was on the Church?s role in limiting
women?s progress.  In the late 1880s, Stanton began a through study of
the Bible.  Her work, along with the contributions made by a committee
of academic and church women brought together for this project, led to
the creation of volume one of The Woman?s Bible. Focusing on only those
passages that mentioned women or erroneously omitted women, The Woman?s
Bible reproduces the original text followed by a reinterpretation or
commentary.  The 151 pages of material made available online as part of
Words and Deeds contains Stanton?s handwritten text for the books of
Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers published in the first volume of her Bible
and the book of Matthew published in volume two.

Please direct any questions about the additions to the Words and Deeds
online collection to NDLPCOLL@xxxxxxx