![]() Using the practice of multispectral imaging-sometimes called hyperspectral imaging-conservationists at the Library of Congress were recently able to shine a new light on what someone had attempted to scrub out. If they could be read, they might reveal some new dimension to one of the better-known Founding Fathers. But Hamilton scholars were excited by the 14 lines of writing in the first paragraph that had been crossed out. On the surface, it looked very much like a rant about a Revolutionary War skirmish in Camden, South Carolina. ![]() One example: a letter written by Alexander Hamilton to his future wife, Elizabeth Schuyler, on September 6, 1780. Other times, researchers can see “lost” text right under their noses. ![]() Sometimes, it’s simply a case of missing pages. ![]() Age, deterioration, and water damage are just a few of the reasons historians can be short on information that was once readily available on paper. ![]()
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