A project blog tracking the digitization of over 100,000 records of Adams family correspondence— four generations of the letters, diaries and public correspondence of John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy and Louisa Adams, and their children and family. You can find project updates as well as documentation on how to convert a fifty-year-old paper catalog into an XML database.
A Note on Terminology
The Adams Papers Catalog is also known as the Control File since it provides intellectual control over a vast archive of historical material. It is also known as the Slip File because the physical file is located on small slips of paper. Many, many slips. These three terms will be used interchangeably throughout this blog.
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