As humans, we generally have a fascination with the most significant digit on an odometer changing, whether that be special celebrations for birthdays or anniversaries that are multiples of ten or twenty-five, seeing a bank account reach a certain number of zeros or even just the clock hitting the top of the hour.
At Footnote, we've recently passed 10 Million images (across 52 titles) online, which is really just one click more on the odometer than 9,999,999, but it's still pretty cool. We are putting about 2 million digital images of original documents online each month so we're already well past 10,000,000 images and in a few months 10,000,000 will seem like chump change, just as 200,000 (the number of images we had a launch) seems like nothing now (we generally add that many images in two days).
Here are the excerpts of the blog post on the Footnote.com Blog: 10 million original documents and growing daily
- "...launched the site had nearly 200,000 images from the American Revolution."
- "...millions of original War documents from muster rolls, officer pay, supply records, service records, pensions and Continental Congress Papers..."
- "Being able to examine an original document first-hand can be a powerful experience."
- "...storing just these images requires more 5.4 terabytes of hard drive space..."
- "With our unique partnership with the National Archives you can expect to see many as 2 million new historical document added each month."
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