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Comments are a great way to add your own thoughts to things you find on Footnote or add details that don't seem to fit in the body of a Story Page or Spotlight.

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Use the image controls (the button that looks like a sun) and set the contrast to the max and adjust the brightness. It becomes a little more readable.

Added to the image Page 4, found in Confederate Amnesty Papers

This James Monroe Bacon wolud have been born in the year 1818

Added to the image Page 1, found in Passport Applications, 1795-1905

who would have thought that the site runs on an iPod

Added to the spotlight Footnote Network update

The extent of the devastation is astonishing.

Added to the image Page 1, found in WWII US Air Force Photos

It says "Continue". Not particularly useful document.

Added to the image Page 5, found in Revolutionary War Pensions

You can see this report in context at http://www.footnote.com/page/238 Indeed the second resolution is as short as stated here according the official journal of the…

Added to the story page Report from the Grand Compromise Committee

"This certainly violates the Espionage Act." -- I would like to get a source to "the Espionage Act". Intriguing that speaking out against the military is considered espionage.

Added to the story page Jack London's "A Good Soldier"

"Whose necessary expenses shall be defrayed, but who shall receive no salary, stipend, fee or reward whatsoever for their services." -- This the same deal that George Washington…

Added to the story page Constitutional Convention, Week of 29 May 1787

This is a very cool document!!

Added to the image Lumey Smith Presley's family bible; births page, found in sjackman's uploads

This letter guarantees Captain Jones the command of a new ship. Unfortunately the ship was sold to the King of France due to financial difficulties before it was ever used by…

Added to the image Page 65, found in Continental Congress - Papers

This an interesting document.

Added to the image Page 5b, found in Continental Congress - Papers

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