Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The papers of Horace Capron, United States army officer and commissioner of agriculture, were given to the Library of Congress by his great-grandson, Banfield Capron, in 1964 and in 1980.
Processing History
The collection was processed in 1964 and an addition to the collection was processed in 1980. The finding aid was revised in 2010.
In 2022, a digital scan of a map of Tennessee was added to the collection and the finding aid was updated. The scan was created by the Library of Congress digital scan center and received on one optical disk. The optical disk was assigned a unique digital ID number. Use the digital ID number to request access copies of the file associated with the storage media. A description of the standard processes taken on all born digital records can be found in the Processing History Note: Born Digital Collection Material at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.digital.
Technical Requirements
The papers of Horace Capron contain a scanned map in JPEG format. The file was created by the Library of Congress using Adobe Photoshop in a Windows operating system, version unknown. The file can be accessed using standard image viewers.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number or digital IDs, Horace Capron Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.