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shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Sorry if this has been covered before.

I was watching a History Channel special on the LOC, they photograph all of their photos and documents for archival using an 88 mega-pixel camera. Yes 88, not 8.8...how long would it take to load an auction catalog online if every image was 88MB. Woof!

ANA-LM, NBS, EAC

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  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭
    It's fun to go through their online archives (for research, to illustrate a book, etc.). Sometimes you can click on a 90 Kb thumbnail image . . . to get to a 500 Kb medium-sized JPG . . . and clicking on that leads you to a ginormous 123 Megabyte TIFF! lol



  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It's fun to go through their online archives (for research, to illustrate a book, etc.). Sometimes you can click on a 90 Kb thumbnail image . . . to get to a 500 Kb medium-sized JPG . . . and clicking on that leads you to a ginormous 123 Megabyte TIFF! lol >>



    ...any link for coins image
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  • DentuckDentuck Posts: 3,824 ✭✭✭


    << <i>
    ...any link for coins image >>




    Coins, maybe not... but I'm sure they have some numismatic content.

  • shorecollshorecoll Posts: 5,447 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They have GW's diaries, maybe he talks about the 1792/93 coinage. They say most of the entries are like..."It's Tuesday and the sun is shining"...have to read 10,000 pages to find the comments on half-dismes. image
    ANA-LM, NBS, EAC
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>
    ...any link for coins image >>




    Coins, maybe not... but I'm sure they have some numismatic content. >>



    ...thanks. i guess i'll have to dwell there sometime. image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • RWBRWB Posts: 8,082 ✭
    As with most research, you have to wade through a lot of ordinary material to find the bits important to you
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    ...and from what i've seen there so far it's gonna take a lot of wading. image
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • Dennis88Dennis88 Posts: 5,797 ✭✭✭


    << <i>They have GW's diaries, maybe he talks about the 1792/93 coinage. They say most of the entries are like..."It's Tuesday and the sun is shining"...have to read 10,000 pages to find the comments on half-dismes. image >>



    Are those online?
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  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>They have GW's diaries, maybe he talks about the 1792/93 coinage. They say most of the entries are like..."It's Tuesday and the sun is shining"...have to read 10,000 pages to find the comments on half-dismes. image >>



    Are those online? >>



    ...link
    "government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is a force! like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master; never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." George Washington
  • EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Here's a Cent-related one from just about 150 years ago (March 4, 1861)

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