Library of Congress Blog guest post Elizabeth Gettins, a digital library specialist: “In celebration of copyright’s 150th anniversary this month, the Rare Book and Special Collections Division launches a new digital collection, Early Copyright Materials of the United States 1790-1870, which puts online for the first time nearly 50,000 title pages that accompanied copyright registrations dating back to the foundation of the country…”
Get the full story at: https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2020/08/old-copyright-submissions-hawthorne-twain-douglass-and-thousands-more/