Lots of big headlines, pictures and sensational stories. Md. He feared that he was going insane. Throughout its history, the News-American never let its readers forget that they were the paper that endorsed Abraham Lincoln for president. The Baltimore Sun did not. There's so much information, and it's easy to get caught up in one volume, when one is really after another.
Technology is an uncertain entity for keepers of the old and ancient.
McElrath hopes to digitize some of the items in the collection so researchers from around the world will be able to log on to the Marylandia site. Special exhibits might be translated to the web in order to increase their audiences. The state is already issuing many of its documents in both electronic and paper versions. It may be a matter of time before everything is issued only electronically. McElrath wonders how archivists will document the end of the 20th century without documents.