U.S. Branch Mint Correspondence available on NNP 0

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A large group of branch mint correspondence has recently been added to the NNP archive. Use this URL to get to NARA documents.

https://nnp.wustl.edu/Library/Archives?searchLetter=U

This will take you direct to Entry 11:   https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/archivedetail/515205

New material includes:

Entry-11 ---

Box 2 Carson
Box 3 Carson
Box 4 Carson
Box 5 Carson-Charlotte
Box 6 1838-1839 Charlotte
Box 7 1840-1842 Charlotte
Box 8 1843-1846 Charlotte
Box 9 1847-1853 Charlotte
Box 10 1854-1859 Charlotte
Box 11 1860-1879 Charlotte
Box 12 1880-1885 Charlotte
Box 13 1886-1896 Charlotte
Box 14 1835-1839 Dahlonega
Box 15 1840-1843 Dahlonega
Box 16 1843-1846 Dahlonega

Date ranges are approximate and letters are not in strict chronological order. For example, in Box 2 the Carson Mint material starts in about 1867, however there are groups of letters from 1862.

All the boxes are freely available to view or download. These are images of presscopy files and vary considerably in quality. Also, the images are deliberately low contrast to preserve maximum detail such as from pencil addenda. Users can enhance the images in Photoshop or other image manipulation software.

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Edited May 23, 2023 by RWB

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Low contrast enhancement tip. Begin by increasing the density of mid-tones until just before you start to pickup noise from the paper's surface. Then begin tweaking (NOT "twerking") shadow density and overall contrast. Take your time and always work on a copy -- never you original image.