NEWMAN NUMISMATIC PORTAL 2022 REPORT

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V26 2023 INDEX E-SYLUM ARCHIVE

The E-Sylum: Volume 26, Number 1, January 1, 2023, Article 3

It's been an honor and a pleasure to be associated with the Newman Numismatic Portal since its inception. My contributions as a part-time consultant are small compared to the efforts of the core staff highlighted in the 2022 Annual Report, which has just been published. Can you imagine nearly five million pages of numismatic information? If you haven't visited the portal lately, you haven't visited the portal. Here's an excerpt from the report with a complete version linked below. -Editor

The Newman Numismatic Portal (NNP, http://Newman Portal.org), administered by Washington University in St. Louis, is chartered with the mission of making the documents and images of numismatics, especially American numismatics, universally available on a free and forever basis. The Portal is sponsored by the Eric P. Newman Numismatic Education Society (EPNNES), which was founded in 1958 and further supports the American Numismatic Society, American Numismatic Association, and other numismatic initiatives.

With 4.941 million pages in our collection as of December 2022, Newman Portal is set to exceed the 5-million-page milestone in early 2023. Since we began scanning operations at Washington University in 2015, collection growth has been steady, with contributions from scanning centers in St. Louis (Washington University) New York (American Numismatic Society), and National Archives locations in Philadelphia, Denver, and College Park, MD.

Recent additions to the collection include the archives of the Western Pennsylvania Numismatic Society, American Numismatic Society member correspondence, and the Frank Gasparro papers from the American Numismatic Association.

The National Archives, the repository of the United States government, is known to many as the keeper of our foundational documents, including the original copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Within the area of numismatics, NARA holds extensive records from the Mint and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. In consultation with Roger W. Burdette and R. W. Julian, NNP has built the largest online collection of archival material from these two institutions.

Our holdings, available at https://nnp.wustl.edu/Library/Archives?searchLetter=U, number 449,726 pages, or 9.1% of our total content. This year, we completed scanning of the General Correspondence entry for the U.S. Mint, which comprises 203 volumes covering the years 1792-1899. Within this group, Burdette recently located previously unknown candidate designs for U.S. coinage from 1853. We acknowledge Nicole Fry, who performs NARA scanning on behalf of NNP in Philadelphia, in addition to John Graffeo, who imaged NARA materials in Denver.

To read the complete report, see:
Newman Portal 2022 Report (https://nnp.wustl.edu/library/book/621283)