Guide to Depositories of Manuscript Collections in Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Guide to Depositories of Manuscript Collections in Pennsylvania (Classic Reprint) written by Margaret Sherburne Eliot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Guide to Depositories of Manuscript Collections in Pennsylvania Interest was aroused in the task which the Historical Records Survey had undertaken, and, in December, 1936, the Committee on Historical Source Materials, American Historical Association, discussed with the Director Of the nation-wide Survey project the question Of bringing the manuscript resources Of this country under control. On the basis of this discussion the manuscripts survey began to assume definitive form, and general terms were abandoned. T 0 this time emphasis - had been placed upon the inventories Of county archives. This work had been under way for some months and the time had arrived to consider the procedure to be taken in the field Of non-archival materials. Supplement 6 to the Manual was issued. This Supplement restated the aims of the Survey in specific terms and the steps we expected to take to bring the manuscript resources (as distinct from public records) under control. The Guide to Depositories of Manuscript Collections in the United States will be published in a series Of fifty volumes, one for each state and the District Of Columbia, regardless Of the number Of depositories; an index will be included in each volume, and the fiftieth book will be an index to the series. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.