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Lincoln documents on the loc site - Angela - 03-05-2018 02:38 PM
There was a wonderful search page on the website from the Library of Congress for many years.
With the upgrade to full-color documents it seems to have vanished - am I just being unable to find it or is that the same for anyone else?
You could give certain search terms and a list of documents would appear, divided by one or all the words included, "near each other" and so on.
There is something similar now but not as easy or quickly to use.
RE: Lincoln documents on the loc site - Steve - 03-05-2018 04:27 PM
Is this the page you are referring to?
https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/searchAdvanced
RE: Lincoln documents on the loc site - Angela - 03-06-2018 12:00 AM
(03-05-2018 04:27 PM)Steve Wrote: Is this the page you are referring to?
https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/searchAdvanced
No, unfortunately not. It was just a list of letters, documents written or received by Lincoln.
RE: Lincoln documents on the loc site - Steve - 03-06-2018 02:32 AM
Although it doesn't have a search box, this page might be helpful:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/about-this-collection/
RE: Lincoln documents on the loc site - Angela - 03-06-2018 01:24 PM
It is - but not really. This one used to be there but there was a search page that allowed to look up certain documents.
I think I'll write them and ask what happened.
RE: Lincoln documents on the loc site - Angela - 03-07-2018 12:23 PM
I contacted the LoC and they confirmed that the old site was migrated to a new place.
Just in case anyone had bookmarked it - this is the one that is gone: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/malquery.html
This is the new one: https://www.loc.gov/collections/abraham-lincoln-papers/about-this-collection
The results, imo, are presented in a rather confusing way and it takes forever to find the document searched for.
Eh, I'm getting old and cranky about new stuff ;-)))