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National Archives and Footnote Launch Project to Digitize Historic Documents

Press release: “Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Footnote, Inc. CEO Russell Wilding today announced an agreement to digitize selected records from the vast holdings of the National Archives. The 4.5 million pages that have been digitized so far are now available at http://www.footnote.com/nara.php.”

  • Press release from OpenTheGovernment.org: “On January 10, 2007, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) entered into a non-exclusive agreement with iArchives, Inc. to make digitized documents and pictures available on the Footnote website (Footnote is owned by iArchives, Inc.). So far, Footnote has digitized 4.5 million pages of NARA documents. Although expanding the availability of digitized documents is a positive step, the details of the agreement and the process NARA.”
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