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Documents from the Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia

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Metadata

Unless otherwise stated, all manuscript descriptions and other cataloging metadata hosted here are ©2015 The Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia. They are licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Licensed version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0):

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About the Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia

The Abraham Lincoln Foundation of The Union League of Philadelphia (ALF) is the steward of an important collection of art, archives, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, objects and other historic documents related to both the Union League and the Civil War. The collections include materials from the ALF, The Union League of Philadelphia, The Civil War Museum of Philadelphia, The Military Order of The Loyal Legion of the United States and The Dames of the Loyal Legion of the United States. The collections are available for research through The Heritage Center of the Union League.Additional collections of books related to American and European history, World Wars I and II, regional history, biographies and early 20th century travel are also available.

OPenn includes some of the items from the Abraham Lincoln Foundation. For more information on all of the collections available at the ALF see:

Image standards and specifications

Images from the Abraham Lincoln Foundation collections were shot and processed by the Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image. In general, SCETI follows the NISO standards as articulated in A Framework for Building Good Digital Collections, 3rd Edition:

The following represents specific standards adopted by SCETI in their capture of digital images.

Image specifications

Imaging and processing equipment

Master images are captured at a resolution of at least 600 pixels per inch of the image subject. Once all of the images for a manuscript have been captured they are color-corrected, deskewed, and cropped.

In 2015, SCETI began using IQ280 Phase One digital cameras; however, OPenn contains images that were captured using different equipment before this time. If you have questions about a specific manuscript or image, please refer to the header of the Master image or images in question or the accompanying XMP files. You can see this, for example, in the Master images for Penn Manuscript Ms. Codex 1096 at http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0002/mscodex1096/data/master/. Note the metadata in the image header of 0396_0000.tif or in its sidecar XMP file 0396_0000.tif.xmp as seen below. 

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  <tiff:ImageLength>6121</tiff:ImageLength>
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  <tiff:Model>P 45+</tiff:Model>
  <tiff:Orientation>1</tiff:Orientation>
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