"Determined to see my danger before I would be intimidated at it, 我拿起帽子，大步走向后甲板." John Adams autobiography, part 2, "Travels, and Negotiations," 1777-1778
From Adams Family Papers, 马萨诸塞州历史学会.
的 亚当斯家族文件:电子档案 presents selections from the most important manuscript collection held by the 马萨诸塞州历史学会. Digital images of the letters exchanged between John and Abigail Adams, 约翰·亚当斯日记, and John Adams's autobiography are presented alongside transcriptions.
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的 images of John Adams's diaries and autobiography featured on the 亚当斯家族文件:电子档案 website were made from microfilm, with the exception of the earliest diary of John Adams. An outside vendor (Preservation Resources) created TIFF images (400 dpi) and extra-large derivative JPEG images (400 dpi, 100%像素宽度)从三卷缩微胶卷. Project staff resized the images to create the three versions featured on the website: the large JPEGs are 400 dpi and have 50% of the pixel width of the TIFFs and extra large JPEGS, 小的jpeg是200 dpi和600像素宽, 迷你jpeg是100 dpi和300像素宽. 的 grayscale images on this website of the earliest diary of John Adams, part of the Royall Tyler Collection at the Vermont Historical Society, were made from black and white photographs with permission from the Vermont Historical Society.
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