The latest contribution to The Papers
of John Jay database comes from The
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History. Gilder Lehrman has provided
171 original color scans representing
55 documents from their collection. The
Gilder Lehrman collection, on deposit
at the New-York Historical Society,
contains more than 60,000 documents
detailing the political and social history
of the United States. For more
information on The Gilder Lehrman Institute
and its collections, go to http://www.gilderlehrman.org. View
the new
documents.
Columbia University Libraries has relaunched The
Papers of John Jay web site, an
online database of abstracts and images
of over 13,000 documents written by
or to John Jay. The redesigned
web site has been significantly enhanced
since it was first launched in 2002.
While the site initially included Jay
documents from about 50 institutions,
today it represents over 90. The content
has also increased considerably with
the addition of over 1,500 documents
and 12,000 page images. These include
1,300 new color scans from original
documents in Columbia’s Rare Book & Manuscript
Library. In addition, users can now
perform more complex Boolean searches,
along with the standard searches by
Author, Recipient, Keywords, Repository,
Jay ID, and Date; and keyword results
are now displayed ‘in context’ for
easier browsing.
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