The United States Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842

Digital Collection 2004
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Washington, D.C.

Initial funding for this project was provided by The Atherton Seidell Endowment.

Special thanks is given to the following for providing Introductory essays:

• Nathaniel Philbrick
  Author of Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery - The U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (Viking Penguin: New York, 2003)
  
• Jane Walsh
  Museum Specialist
  Anthropology Outreach Office
  Department of Anthropology
  National Museum of Natural History
• Leslie K. Overstreet
  Curator of Natural History Rare Books
  Special Collections Department
  Smithsonian Institution Libraries
  

Site design by Nicole Van Doren, Web Designer, New Media Office, Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Project Management by Martin R. Kalfatovic, Head, New Media Office, Smithsonian Institution Libraries

Special thanks is given to the following Smithsonian Institution Libraries' volunteers and interns for their work on this project:

• Marisa Ramirez (Intern, Summer 2003)
• John Shuster (Intern, Summer 2003)
• Lexow Grant (Volunteer, additional imaging and database work)
• Betty Hu (Volunteer, additional imaging and database work)
  

Digital imaging and text conversion information:

• Original images 8-bit images captured at 400 dpi on a Zeutschel Model OS 7000 AO HX-4265.01 by Preservation Resources (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
• Original 24-bit images captured at 400 dpi on a BetterLight Super6K at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Imaging Center.
• Images stored as TIFFs. High resolution web images reduced to 96 dpi and rescaled to 1000 pixels on the short side. Images which do not contain significant color information are displayed in grayscale.
• Text conversion and mark-up by Innodata Isogen (Hackensack, New Jersey)