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Widener Library is one of a dozen libraries and organizations that have ordered complete microfilm copies of the Jefferson papers in the Library of Congress. Described by Gilbert Chinard as "the richest treasure house of information ever left by a single man," they will soon be available in microfilm form at such widely separated centers of research (besides the Library of Congress) as the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Princeton University Library, University of California Libraries, the New York Public Library, University of Minnesota Library, and Duke University Library...
...printed on durable 25% rag paper, with format by the Princeton University Press's art director, P. Jefferson Conkwright. Included will be the first collected volume of Jefferson's sketches and architectural drawings, many of which are classics of housing history. Considerable use will be made of microfilm in preparing the edition, and the linotype men will set largely from photographs of the letters...
...will appear in early January. It will be an ad-less, TIME-size, slick-paper weekly, will carry about twelve pages of editorials, news articles, pictures and cartoons culled from the regular Daily fail's issues. All editing will be done in London, printing in New York (from microfilm flown from England...
Every four weeks some 15,000 new items are added and 10,000 out-of-date ones are thrown away to keep the walls of the TIME & LIFE Building from bursting. To save space we keep newspapers on microfilm-800 pages on a roll the size of a sardine...
Last month a little tin box, no more than five inches around, arrived in the U.S. In it were 100 feet of microfilm-the photographed score of the Seventh Symphony. It had been carried by plane from Kuibyshev to Teheran, by auto from Teheran to Cairo, by plane from Cairo to New York. Photographers went to work printing from the film. In ten days they reproduced four fat volumes, 252 pages in all, of orchestral score...