Digital archives at NARA

First seen at BeSpacific : the National Archives and Footnote have created a joint project to digitize historic documents and collections. Here's a blurb from the press release on the NARA site:

Press Release
January 10, 2007
National Archives and Footnote Launch Project to Digitize Historic Documents

Washington, DC and Lindon, UT…

Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein and Footnote, Inc. CEO Russell Wilding today announced an agreement to digitize selected records from the vast holdings of the National Archives. The 4.5 million pages that have been digitized so far are now available at www.footnote.com/nara.

Current collections are:

• Papers of the Continental Congress (1774-89).
• Mathew B. Brady Collection of Civil War Photographs.
• Southern Claims Commission.
• Name Index to Civil War and Later Pension Files.