Founded in 1901, the Alabama Department of Archives and History was the first independently administered state archival and historical agency in the U.S.
When completed, this collection will contain all the original case files of the Alabama Supreme Court from 1820 through 1877. These records include interrogatories, exhibits, motions, and other details not included in the published rulings, though excerpts from the printed reports will be...
When completed, this collection will consist of the official papers of the eleven men who served as governors of Alabama from the eve of secession and Civil War to the postwar "Redemption" administrations of George S. Houston and Rufus W. Cobb.
Researching people and events in the Renan area around 1920. Please contact me at benwbrum@gmail.com
The East documents were found in an abandoned building near Cherrystone Creek in the early 1970s, and include one empty envelope addressed to John C. East and one letter (with envelope) from George W. East to Thomas C. East.
George W. East enlisted in the 53rd VA Infantry, Company I, when he...
Middle English texts from Robert Thornton's Lincoln and London manuscripts.
Demo collection for April 2022 metadata webinar
Historic fossil registers held by British Geological Survey, Keyworth, UK. Part of the GSM (Geological Survey Museum) Collection.
Transcription of petitions of citizens to the Tennessee General Assembly (legislative body) for private and public acts from approximately 1801-1870.
Images from microfilm.
TN State Library & Archives created an index to primary petitioners' names, locations, and subjects. That index is at...
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Letters written by various people during the Civil War, 1861-1865. Please note that historical materials in the Civil War Collections may include viewpoints and values that are not consistent with the values of the California State Library or the State of California and may be considered...
A collection of ten letters from Hasslacher in Geyserville, Sonoma County, to his friend, Louis Noll in Oakland. Dated 1873-1876, the letters discuss family matters relating to health and finance, including a request to borrow money. A letter dated Oct. 23, 1876, talks of picking grapes and...
Help the Julian Bond Papers Project Transcribe New Content!
We've started launching new materials starting in the summer of 2022, and it will be available here, at https://fromthepage.com/centerfordigitalediting/bond-papers-new-content. See also our updated transcription guidance (please no...
The Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi project (CWRGM) is digitizing, transcribing, and annotating the nearly 20,000 documents in the state's governors' collections for the long Civil War era, and we're seeking your help. To meet our goals, we rely in part on volunteer...
Cleveland Public Library is the "People’s University," the center of learning for a diverse and inclusive community.
This collection contains a diary, a set of letters, and a manuscript document from the Special Collections at Cleveland Public Library.
The first item is the Diary for 1865, George B. Carle, Company K, 90th Ohio Regiment.
The diary, part a larger collection, consists holograph entries in a...
Congregation B'nai Israel is launching a project to transcribe our historic Minute Books from cursive writing into typed text.
The first 30 years of California's statehood were a time of upheaval for American Indians throughout California. New state officials worked to assume control of California's affairs and boundaries, U.S. government officials unfamiliar with California and its Indians arrived to document tribal...
Digital by Dartmouth Library (DxDL) provides free, digital access to nearly three hundred thousand items from our collections — from classical texts to medieval manuscripts to scientific accounts to audiovisual materials.
Edward Mitchell was the first student of African descent to attend Dartmouth College. In 1824, students protested the Board of Trustees' decision not to admit Mitchell because of his race. The students’ activism was supported by the faculty, the Board relented, and Mitchell took his rightful...
This collection as been fully transcribed (thank you!). You may still help out by proof-reading the transcriptions, and indexing subjects (Authors, Poem Titles, Places, and Organizations) by placing double brackets around them [[like this]].
This commonplace book of poetry was compiled by...
This collection has been fully transcribed (thank you!), but we still need your help to index subjects, which are: people, places, and organizations. You can index a subject by placing double brackets around it [[like this]]. Take a look at our Tagging and Metadata Tutorial to learn more, or...
Digital Maryland is a collaborative, statewide digital preservation program of the Enoch Pratt Free Library/Maryland State Library Resource Center. Users can search and explore historical and cultural documents, images, audio, and videos that record Maryland’s history.
Mutual Benefit Society of Baltimore Collection
The Mutual Benefit Society insurance company operated in Baltimore from 1903 until 1977 when it merged with another insurance company. Located on 407-413 W. Franklin St., in buildings that still bear the name, it provided weekly sick benefits,...
This project is funded by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project. We have digitized nearly 5,000 pages of nineteenth-century Peruvian periodicals. The OCR on these is in need of correcting! Please help us here!
This project is partially funded by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project. We have digitized nearly 5,000 pages of nineteenth-century Peruvian periodicals. The OCR on these is in need of correcting! Please help us to make clean OCRd PDFs widely available to interested researchers and...
Countries like the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are major international hubs with residents hailing from all over the world. Of course, in them we find the traditional foods of Eastern Arabia (known as "Khaleeji" cooking), but there are also many different global food cultures and interesting fusions on offer. Working with a growing collection of restaurant menus from the UAE and the larger Arab Gulf countries, we are transcribing them–dish by dish–in order to study what they can tell us about food and culture in the region. In these menus you will find many languages; they typically contain English and Arabic, but be on the lookout for Amharic, Chinese, Malayalam, Tagalog, Urdu and others. Folders have been created indicating what language skills you need to transcribe. Dish by Dish is a project of Citizen Researcher in the Office of Research Outreach at NYU Abu Dhabi. To find out more about the collection of menus and the data we are building based on them, visit our project website linked at the top of this page.
In this collection you will find menus from many different kinds of restaurants in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The menus vary in structure and layout. In this folder, we have included only menus written in English, or in English (Latin) script languages. Remember that you will also find many...
Charles Dickens left behind a remarkably complete record of his literary output, including not just handwritten drafts for most of the major novels but also marked-up page proofs, serial publications, illustrations, theatrical adaptations and records of his own legendary performances from his...
Whaling logs held at the East Hampton Library's Long Island Collection.
This collection includes Deeds from the Long Island Collection.
This Collection includes documents from the Long Island Collection and the Brooklyn Historical Society. It focuses on the land ownership history of Montauk going back to early Colonial records continuing through Arthur Benson's efforts to purchase and control land in the area the the Proprietors...
Explore East Texas history with the resources at the East Texas Research Center (ETRC), located on the second floor of Ralph W. Steen Library at Stephen F. Austin State University.
Digital copies of items are available in the Digital Archives and Collections. Items include photographs, documents, maps, books and other archival materials associated with the East Texas geographical region from the Gulf of Mexico north to the Red River and east of the Trinity River to Western Louisiana, which was once part of Texas. The digitized material is freely available to students, teachers and the general public for their historical and genealogical research.
The McFarland-Russell family papers consist of personal and business correspondence, legal and business papers, Confederacy related items, materials related to the history of Orange, Texas, and a large amount of material of personal and genealogical interest produced and collected by members of...
These letters were worked on by students workers over the Covid-19 lockdown. They need to be updated and submitted.
Selection of North American enslavement documents from late 18th and 19th centuries from the Chicago History Museum's Archives and Manuscripts collections.
Since 1884 the Filson's mission has been to collect, preserve, and share the significant history and culture of Kentucky and the Ohio Valley.
Pages 7-30 of the Register of the Portland Colored Evening School (Portland neighborhood, Louisville, Kentucky) for 1909-1915. Records name, age, place of residence, occupation, enrollment and/or transfer dates, and vaccination. Only a representative sample of blank pages were scanned. Henrietta...
Collections on and by women held at the Filson Historical Society in Louisville, Kentucky.
This project has "resurrected" and expanded the Library of Congress American Memory Project, First American West, the Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 (FAW), which was taken down in 2016. The Filson Historical Society, the University of Chicago, and the Library of Congress contributed material to...
Florida Memory is a digital outreach program providing free online access to select archival records from collections of the State Archives of Florida and the State Library of Florida. Florida memory digitizes records that illuminate the state's history and culture.
For the Genealogical Society of Greater Miami Summer Transcription Challenge.
These ledgers document tax assessments in Florida counties for 1851 and 1855. This form was standardized across all counties. However, the form changed changed after 1855, and you can transcribe later years by viewing the associated collection.
These ledgers document tax assessments in Florida counties for 1846 and 1847. This form was standardized across all counties. However, the form changed changed after 1847, and you can transcribe later years by viewing the associated collection.
Folger Shakespeare Library is home the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world.
This is a temporary collection for participants of the Folger Institute's Teaching Paleography course to play around with.
This collection largely comprises English manuscript newsletters, dating from 1674 to 1715, received and compiled by the Newdigate family of Arbury Hall in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The letters cover a diverse range of topics, but are mainly concerned with contemporary domestic and Continental...
These recipe books from the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the Wellcome Collection were used for the Early Modern Recipe Online Collective's (EMROC) 2021 transcribathon, a one-day manuscript adventure on March 4, from 1PM to 9 PM GMT. This worldwide event offered a chance to help make two...
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Thomas P. Martin (1846-1910) was born on Albemarle Plantation in Assumption Parish, Louisiana. During the Civil War, he served in Company C of the 26th Louisiana Regiment. In 1865, Thomas Martin married Cornelia M. Taylor. Mr. Martin arrived in Fort Worth, Texas during the early 1890s, where...
The Albert Ruth Papers is a sub-collection of correspondence, notebooks, and papers within the Mary Daggett Lake Papers. Albert Ruth (1844-1932) was an early North Texas botanist, whose collection of nearly 10,000 specimens was purchased by the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens and was later displayed...
The Frederick Douglass Papers collects, edits, and publishes in books and online the speeches, letters, autobiographies, and other writings of Frederick Douglass. The project is in the process of building a new digital edition where documents completed here are published. You can find the digital edition at https://frederickdouglasspapersproject.com/s/digitaledition/page/home.
Documents with unknown origin or publishing info.
Documents to be transcribed in 2023 for Correspondence Volume 2. Some documents had OCR performed on them before they were uploaded to this site. If you find pages with messy and gibberish text, that is the reason. You can delete that text and start from scratch if that is easier for you instead...
This volume contains all published documents which do not require transcription. They have OCR text that requires some clean up.
FromThePage staff are researching applications of AI technology to archives, libraries, and scholarly projects.
What is this?
This is a “playground” to explore how different handwritten text recognition models work with different types of documents. Using FromThePage’s “AI-Assist” feature you can get an overlay of the machine generated text over each page image, making it easy to see where...
The South Carolina Room in the Hughes Main Library houses the Greenville County Library System's genealogy and local history collections. The following digital collections include items from the South Carolina Room's archive, local organizations, and private collections showcasing the rich and varied history of Greenville and the Upstate of South Carolina.
Digitized items are presented as part of the historical record for the purpose of education and research. The inclusion of an item in the Library System's digital collections does not represent an endorsement of its contents or its expressed viewpoints. Items may contain content that some may find offensive.
Collection of letters from the Metchicas and Kehayas family from the 1940s.
Afternoon newspaper for Greenville, SC 1912-1926
Slater Mill community newspaper covering the life and times of employees and families.
This collection, approximately 1820-1904, includes the personal correspondence of Asa Gray and Sereno Watson, official correspondence of other Herbarium staff, and a small amount of correspondence of noted botanists who were not affiliated with Harvard.
Gray correspondence contains letters...
Documents from the Botany Libraries, Harvard University written in German
Notebooks used by Wilson to record collections of seeds and herbarium specimens.
The High Point Museum cares for and exhibits objects, photographs, and archival material that reflect the history of the greater High Point, NC, area.
Property deeds and legal and financial papers related to High Point residents and businesses.
Letters, deeds, meeting minutes, and other materials from the collection of the High Point Museum.
Many of the Fisher letters describe visits to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
Eighteenth-century store ledgers detail tabular data: recording purchases, account holders, and payments. These transactions are very different from the typical prose of a letter or diary entry, however, they include as much, if not more, significant information to assist in the understanding...
The Indiana State Archives exists to provide for the protection, and access to, primary-source and historical documents that contribute to Indiana's heritage. By assisting with transcription projects, you are helping our archivists create searchable text for records challenging to automated methods. Thank you to all our contributors, we appreciate your efforts!
Founded on December 25, 1854, to further the cause of public and free education in Indiana, the Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) played an active and critical role in the development of modern public education within the state. Open to educators and the general public alike, the ISTA...
Near the start of the Civil War in the summer of 1862, the Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton directed all northern states to fill a draft call for 300,000 men. In Indiana, two separate lists were created, one for men who had already enlisted in the volunteer forces and another listing all white...
This collection is a companion to the Jeffersonville Land Office Receipt Books collection. Some of the books required different transcription settings due to their format.
Sales of public land by the United States Government in Indiana began in 1801. Sales at the Jeffersonville Land Office...
This collection contains trade catalogs, 1881-1922, from Iowa seed companies, such as the Iowa Seed Company and Dorr's Iowa Seeds. Catalogs include seeds and bulbs for flowers, trees, herbs, ornamental shrubs, vegetables, grains, grasses, and fruit. In addition, the catalogs often also include...
Obra de Trevor Owens para ser traducida al español.
Test collection using 'pipe' character to delimit structured text
Sample of several pages from the Oram Diaries to evaluate transcription tools
The Irish Dialect Archive (Cartlann na gCanúintí) was established in 1953 by Professor Tomás de Bhaldraithe, as part of the Department of Modern Irish at UCD. The Archive is a resource centre for Irish language lexical / dialect research and consists of card indices, manuscripts, computer-based...
This event will take place November 9-11, 2023. See the Transcribe Hopkins website for more information: https://transcribehopkins.tcf.lauramorreale.com/
The Morse Department of Special Collections is the official repository for official records of Kansas State University and is a center of research for cookery, Kansas history, and the consumer movement.
The Richard L. D. & Marjorie J. Morse Department of Special Collections comprehensively collects manuscript and printed materials for its Cookery Collection. The manuscript portion of the Cookery Collection contains over 250 cookbooks in many languages and countries of origin, from the late 17th...
The Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections contain select materials from the Kentucky Historical Society's archival and library collections.
Several photographers successively occupied a studio at Number 43, St. Clair Street, Frankfort, Ky.: Wolff from ca. 1898 to 1902; Gretter from 1902 to 1917; and Cusick from ca. 1920 to his death in 1933. The business was then maintained by Cusick's widow, Anna, and her brothers George A. Hill...
Letters, receipts, legal documents, deeds and other papers from the McCuddy family of Maryland, Woodford County, KY, and Logan County, KY. The collection contains extensive family and local history information, including descriptions of Indian attacks in Illinois as well as family births, deaths...
This ledger contains information on the African American troops from part of the 7th district, and all of the 8th, and 9th Congressional Districts of Kentucky, who were mustered into the U.S. Army during the Civil War in 1864-65. The 7th district includes: Woodford, Franklin, Mercer, Boyle, and...
A collection of transcribed inventories from Italian Archives
16 Letters
Daybook
Letter to his son; Beinecke MS 815
St. Paul Catholic Church is one of the oldest existing churches in Lexington. The records for the parish go back to 1854. The ledgers are part of the church's historical archive, and contain unique records for Lexington's history. Bishop Stowe, the bishop of the Lexington diocese, has given...
Here's what we're using this software for,
Manuscript folios from Macalester's Special Collections to be transcribed
This library session will give students an opportunity to work with Islamic manuscript materials and contribute to making these collection materials more accessible through the practice of transcription. By transcribing these primary sources, students will be helping the library increase...
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- Soundex code: PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE THE SOUNDEX CODE. Fields asking for the "Soundex Code" of the bride or groom is referring to the alphanumeric characters found in the upper left and right hand corners of the certificate. Each character begins with a letter. ...
Special Collections at the Middlebury College Library serves as a research laboratory for both the Middlebury community and independent scholars.
1859 travel diary relating Peterson's experiences as mate on board the ship Garnet, traveling with a racially integrated crew in the years just before the Civil War. Includes details on his voyages to Savannah, Ga.; Liverpool, England; back to Savannah; to New Orleans, La., where the African...
This collection contains digital scans from 163 handwritten letters written by J.H. Massey during his time in the English Army (Cheshire Regiment) during World War II. Most of the letters were written and sent from Palestine, and discuss naval life, the Cheshire Regiment, England, World War II,...
The Robinson Family letters from Rokeby Museum represent several generations of Quaker families in Vermont, especially the Robinsons - a family of farmers, abolitionists, artists, and authors whose home in Ferrisburgh is now a National Historic Landmark and one of the best-documented...
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Jesse W. Fell's (1808-1887) hugely successful land speculation deals has led to him being credited as the founder of several central Illinois towns and counties, as well as Illinois State (Normal) University. During the Civil War, Fell's Quaker faith prevented him from serving as a soldier. He...
Dating to the founding of Bloomington, these plat maps functioned as the city's official record of property ownership.
* Please note that it is not necessary to transcribe text found within the plat maps. We are asking for assistance in transcribing the titles and text below the plats only. *
Two remarkable women serve as the nexus for this digital collection. The first, Celestia Rice Colby, was born to a well-to-do Ohio farming family in 1827. She became one of the first girls to be schooled at the prestigious Grand River Institute and parlayed the knowledge she gained there into a...
The Missouri State Archives is the official repository for Missouri state records of permanent and historical value.
Register of Inmates received into the Missouri State Penitentiary (MSP). These register entries contain useful details of more than 50,000 individuals who were incarcerated in the Missouri State Penitentiary from 1836-1986. This index will be added to the Missouri State Penitentiary database. ...
Early Missouri tax lists Missouri counties than can be used as census substitutes. These will be added to the Census Records and Tax Lists database.
How to Index the Records
-The indexing conventions are located at the bottom of every page in the transcription view.
-Column headings...
Help transcribe 19th-century papers that tell the story of America's first rural cemetery and the first designed landscape open to the public in North America. Visit our Online Database at MountAuburn.PastPerfectOnline.com
Letters (1831-1930) to and from lot owners and families about care of their lots; letters and invoices from vendors doing business with the Cemetery; letters with artists and architects about commissions for the Cemetery; and founding documents that document the collaborative nature of the...
Trustees records (1831-1930) including meeting minutes, agendas, reports, and letters that document every detail of the business of the Cemetery from hiring a gatekeeper and gardener to managing large swaths of land as an early non-profit.
Use these examples to see how to transcribe the different types of documents to be transcribed: letters to and from the Cemetery in different handwriting, standardized trustee meeting minutes and reports with special headings, and copies of early letters that were copied into letterpress...
Saya seorang pensyarah dalam kajian Asia Tenggara di SOAS University of London.
British Library Mss Add 12380
With thanks to the British Library for digitising this manuscript and making it available for reuse.
The manuscript can also be viewed fully digitised on the BL's site here:http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_12380&index=0
The Nantucket Historical Association preserves and interprets the history of Nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island’s significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
Frances Devens “Daisy” Parrish of Boston, Mass. moved to Nantucket, Mass. as a child. Later, she served as a Red Cross nurse in France and wrote a memoir about her service. This collection is comprised of the diary Frances Devens Parrish kept during her time as a Red Cross nurse in France during...
Obed Macy (1762–1844) was a Nantucket Quaker merchant and writer whose long and varied career included work as a whaleman, shoemaker, blacksmith, and farmer. He and his brother Silvanus manufactured soap and spermaceti candles, and served as shipping agents and ship owners. In 1835, he published...
Maria L. Tallant Owen (1825–1913) was born in Nantucket, Mass., and was a teacher at the Academy on Fair Street. She became interested in Nantucket flora early in her life, collecting and identifying many specimens. In 1888, she published her Catalog of Plants Growing without Cultivation in the...
The National Archives of the United Kingdom is a government department and the material we create is subject to Crown copyright. By taking part in this project, volunteers agree that the data they produce for The National Archives of the United Kingdom will be made available for re-use under the terms of the <a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/">Open Government Licence (OGL)</a> which is the default licence for most Crown copyright material. Under OGL terms, the data will be freely re-usable for the benefit of future research.
These books give details of British Army soldiers and officers, They include details of enlistment, and appointments (promotions) and discharged or deceased
The National Archives (UK) will use basic information to enhance their catalogue.
The forms vary in content.
The image quality may be...
These are records of Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) and other ranks. They include physical descriptions, attestation dates, genealogical information, and length service records.
They are hand written, and the pages may be in a poor state
The New Bedford Whaling Museum's archival collections consist of 1700 linear feet of manuscript materials documenting a range of New Bedford and regional industries including textile manufacturing, cordage manufacturing, tool manufacturing, banking (1825-1936), business papers, whaling and...
To get in touch, email me at volmern[at]tcd.ie.
Practice transcribing medieval Irish script!
Practice your transcription skills by transcribing the Life of Columba (Colum Cille) from the famous Schaffhausen manuscript, which was written by Dorbbéne in Iona around the year 700. This manuscript is not only a unique early witness to the...
Practice transcribing medieval Irish scripts!
The Early Irish Hands TranSCRIPTion Challenge project helps you learn how to read early medieval Irish manuscripts by focusing on practice. It offers anyone interested a chance to get familiar with Irish script by offering simple introductions...
Ohio University Libraries actively invests in digitizing our unique collections in order to broaden access to these rich materials. Our digital offerings regularly expand in support of the research and educational activities of university campus.
Assembled in 1897 by African American high school student, Walter Alexander (1880-1910) of Ironton, Ohio. Alexander created the notebook when he was around 17 years old while attending Kingsbury Public High School. It features mounted plant specimens, pen-and-ink sketches of botanical details,...
This collection features materials from Ohio University Libraries' Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers. Gathered as part of Ryan's research process while writing his book, The Longest Day, the accounts include questionnaires, interviews, and correspondence with soldiers who...
This collection includes materials sourced from the Manasseh Cutler Papers. Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823) was a clergyman from Massachusetts who served as a member of the House of Representatives. As an agent of the Ohio Company of Associates, he was involved in the settlement of the Northwest...
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This collection compiles the legal documents, letters, books, and original works of several members of the Phillips family including Samuel Phillips (founder of Phillips Academy Andover) and his uncle John Phillips (founder of Phillips Exeter Academy). Items in the collections date 1647-1876...
Meeting minutes, financial records, membership lists, libraries of student clubs.
Letters home by students, 1819-1881 and 1934, as well as a student's journal about his time on campus, 1851-1852.
Queen's University Archives, based in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, is the official archival repository for the University record and a rich resource of private manuscripts covering literature, politics, art, business, science, and beyond.
The fonds consists of 25 diaries detailing the life of Irene Dixon Bamford on Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada. Irene Dixon Bamford was born in the United States in 1834. She moved to Wolfe Island with her husband, Wells Bamford (a sailor). She had three children: Isabel, Wells, and Devolsom.
Contains the records of Queen's University at Kingston, including Senate minutes, Board of Trustee minutes, University letters and records of various student associations and clubs.
Henry Herbert Mackarsie was born in or around the 1810's or 1820's and died May 12, 1857 at Monte Video, Uruguay on board HMS Indefatigable after having been removed from HMSS Rifleman on May 7th. Mackarsie was a surgeon in the Royal Navy having served on the Steam Sloop Growler under Commander...
There are over 150 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander language groups in Queensland.
The Queensland State Archives Languages Project aims to support First Nations communities to record and revive traditional languages across the state.
The project involves identifying, researching,...
Following the closure of the Moreton Bay penal settlement in 1842, tenders were called in 1847 to convert the Female Factory in Queen Street to a gaol. On 14 December 1849, the altered building was proclaimed a prison known as the Gaol, Brisbane. A new gaol was built at Petrie Terrace in 1860...
Following the closure of the Moreton Bay penal settlement in 1842, tenders were called in 1847 to convert the Female Factory in Queen Street to a gaol. On 14 December 1849, the altered building was proclaimed a prison known as the Gaol, Brisbane. A new gaol was built at Petrie Terrace in 1860...
Directed by Christina H. Lee, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Princeton University.
Important note: Unless otherwise indicated, the hard-copies of the manuscripts in this collection are housed at the LILLY LIBRARY at Indiana University. If you are using any of the documents, please reference them appropriately.
Description: This project seeks to repatriate books and...
Kompletterande transkriberingsprojekt till I demokratins namn – Kvinnorna som krävde rösträtt.
Materialet består av förteckningar över mottagare till namninsamlingslistor 1913-1914. Det förvaras i original av Riksarkivet i Stockholm och är del av Landsförening för kvinnans politiska rösträtts...
Nyheter i projektet:
Var med och transkribera namnen på medlemmarna i Göteborgs FKPR! Vi lanserar nu ett litet sidoprojekt där du kan hjälpa till att transkribera informationen i en bevarad medlemsmatrikel från Göteborgs förening för kvinnans politiska...
Var med och lyft fram Göteborgs offentliga händelser kring förra sekelskiftet!
I det här projektet transkriberar vi tillståndsjournaler från Göteborgs poliskammares arkiv. Den transkriberade information kommer sedan att tillgängliggöras fritt på Riksarkivets hemsida. Digitiseringen av...
The Sandy Spring Museum Archives is a diverse assemblage of historic documents that illuminate the community's story as a network of rural villages and supports the institution's mission of creating a sense of place and belonging.
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A collection of ledgers and account books of all type, with a table-based format for transcription.
For February’s Transcribe-a-Thon, love is in the air. In honor of Valentine’s Day, we will be transcribing letters sent between various couples from the Sandy Spring community throughout the 19th and early 20th century. The letters include members of the Bancroft, Bentley, Hallowell, Iddings,...
Letters, diaries, scrapbooks and more associated with the Stabler family of Sandy Spring.
The Seattle Municipal Archives preserves and makes accessible the records of enduring value created or received by City agencies and elected officials.
Dating from the 1870s to the first few years of the 20th century, these records contain glimpses into the lives and activities of a growing Seattle. In letters, petitions, reports, claims, bids, and early City ordinances, City of Seattle activities are documented through the voices of Seattle...
The Shelby County Museum & Archives is a historical institution located in Columbiana, Alabama, dedicated to preserving and showcasing the history and heritage of Shelby County. It serves as a repository for various historical documents, artifacts, photographs, and records related to the county's past. The museum features exhibits highlighting different aspects of Shelby County's history, including its early settlement, development, industries, notable figures, and cultural heritage. Additionally, the archives provide resources for genealogical research, offering access to records such as county records, newspapers, family histories, and more. The museum and archives play a vital role in educating the public about the rich history of Shelby County and preserving its heritage for future generations.
Several of the Deed Books archived at the Shelby County Museum & Archives include mentions of enslaved individuals. Transcribing these pages will provide valuable insight into the historical significance of slavery and ensure accessibility to these records for all researchers and visitors.
The Shelby County Museum & Archives houses over twenty thousand packets of Loose Court Case Records. Following a meticulous page-by-page examination of these cases, we have curated a collection focusing on cases involving enslaved individuals.
The next phase of our project involves...
This German manuscript cookbook is dated 1593 and contains 243 recipes for a variety of dishes. Many of the recipes contain rare and unusual ingredients--a marker of the status of the Hohenlohe family.
Welcome to La Sfera Challenge, a two-week competition pitting international teams of scholars against each other in a race to transcribe three different copies of one text, Goro Dati’s fifteenth-century geographic treatise, La Sfera.
Team USA will work with the version housed at the Yale...
This collection consists of letters, diaries and other documents from the Steinbeck family. The materials document their experiences as missionaries in Palestine and their experiences during the Civil War in America.
The Stanford University Archives is the official repository for records of Stanford University, including its founders, administration, faculty, students, and alumni.
The materials consist of SAIL Dump And Restore Technique (DART) backup files, 1972-1990; digital copies of 16 mm films created from 1963-1980; handbooks; log books; manuals; and photographs and videos from the 35th SAIL reunion held in 2009.
Materials created by Stanford faculty.
Includes personal correspondence, 1969-2002; materials pertaining to Microsoft, both his career there and the company, 1976-99; his research materials and notebooks on computers, the software industry, investments, and other interests, 1988-2006; papers, yearbooks, notebooks, and other items...
The State Archives provides guidance on preservation and management of government records, and collects, preserves, and provides public access to historically significant archival materials relating to North Carolina.
Collection Status: Open for Transcription
Transcription Difficulty Rating: Easy
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A selection of documents from World War I and World War II eras.
How to Help Transcribe Documents
The transcription conventions, or “rules,” are located at the bottom of...
Collection Status: Temporarily Closed Due to Technical Difficulties
Transcription Difficulty Rating: Expert
About the Collection
The supreme courts of justice system, in effect briefly from 1755 to 1759, served as the immediate predecessor and the pattern on which the district...
Collection Status: Open for Transcription
Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate
About the Collection
This collection includes a sample of World War II letters from the Military Collection of the State Archives of North Carolina. To help with context, like names of...
The State Library of NSW is one of the great libraries of the world, with a history dating back to 1826. Since then, we have been collecting all kinds of materials that help tell the rich and diverse story of NSW and Australia.
The following parts of this collection, held by the State Library of New South Wales, were selected for the Rediscovering Indigenous Languages project:
-Box 14 Folder 7: James Milson, correspondence & documents of David Dunlop, 1830s-1880s
-Box 20 Folder 1: James Milson, Aboriginal...
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages
These First Nations language materials are being made available to assist community access the collections which were identified in the Rediscovering Indigenous languages project.
The Rediscovering Indigenous Languages site features historic word lists,...
Macarthur papers, 1789-1936 https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YRlZ80gn
John Macarthur (1767-1834), soldier and pastoralist, was commissioned as an ensign in the British Army in 1782 and transferred to the New South Wales Corps in 1789 with a promotion to lieutenant. Macarthur, and his...
Founded in 1881 and celebrating its 140th year, the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages.
It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate meaningful shared experiences through natural science, art, and history to deepen understanding of our environment, ourselves, and each other.
In 1981, Genealogist and Historian Richard B. Dickenson published Census Occupations of Afro-American Families on Staten Island, 1840-1875. In the course of his research, Dickenson compiled these indices with information from the 1855, 1860, 1865, and 1870 State and Federal Censuses. One index...
Frederick Douglass Memorial Park is an African American Cemetery in Staten Island, NY. It was founded in 1935 in response to the practice of racial segregation in cemeteries and is still an active cemetery today. The cemetery's permanent record books are a chronological listing of burials. They...
Frederick Douglass Memorial Park is an African American Cemetery in Staten Island, NY. It was founded in 1935 in response to the practice of racial segregation in cemeteries and is still an active cemetery today. Frederick Douglass Memorial Park's ledger books provide a day-to-day accounting...
The Tennessee State Library & Archives collects and preserves materials of historical, documentary and reference value, and promotes library and archival development throughout the state.
William Blount (1790-1796); John Sevier (1796-1801); Archibald Roane (1801-1803); John Sevier, second administration (1803-1809); Willie Blount (1809-1815); Joseph McMinn (1815-1821); William Carroll (1821-1827); Sam Houston (1827-1829); William Hall (1829); William Carroll (1829-1835); Newton...
The World War I questionnaire project was part of an effort to gather and preserve the history of Tennessee's involvement in what was then known as the Great War. On January 24, 1919 the state legislature resolved that a committee of 25 be appointed, to be known as the Tennessee State...
Minutes of Houston Oil Company of Texas
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission preserves the archival record of Texas, supports research, and makes primary resources available to the public.
These records include muster rolls, muster-in rolls, muster/payrolls, and payrolls for various Ranger organizations of the State of Texas, maintained by the Texas Adjutant General's Department. They date 1846-1861, 1874-1910, 1913-1914, and undated. The information contained on the rolls varies...
Texas Department of Criminal Justice Escape Record, call number 1998/038-270.
Welcome to The Grove’s Transcription Project!
Bring the 19th Century Alive for a 21st Century audience.
Members of the Kennicott Family made groundbreaking contributions in the fields of medicine, horticulture, education, natural history, and exploration in the 1800s. Help us share their stories and contributions by transcribing Kennicott documents and correspondence.
Beginning in 1836, the Kennicotts called The Grove home. The history of their family, their land, and their country are interwoven throughout their letters, photographs, and artifacts. The Grove’s collection represents a rare and precious window into the past, and allows us to better understand...
Library of Virginia inspires learning, ignites imagination, creates possibilities, encourages understanding, and engages Virginia's past to empower its future.
Virginia Untold provides digital access to records that document some of the lived experiences of enslaved and free Black people in the Library of Virginia’s collections. Please help improve the discoverability of these sources by transcribing two of the project's many record types, bills of...
St. John's Episcopal Church was built in 1741, in Henrico Parish. A wing was added in 1772 and other additions were made between 1830 and 1905. The Second Virginia Convention met at St. John's from 20-27 March 1775. The church remains an active congregation.
Vestry books, 1730-1900, of St....
This collection contains the records of the five Virginia conventions that met before the creation of a new state government in 1776. The first convention was held at the Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg on May 30, 1774. Twenty-five members of the House of Burgesses gathered to protest the...
The Roberson Project on Slavery, Race, and Reconciliation at the University of the South is a six-year initiative investigating the university’s historical entanglements with slavery and slavery’s legacies.
George Rainsford Fairbanks (1820-1906) connected the first founding of the University of the South in 1858 with its refounding ten years later. Fairbanks served as a trustee from Florida and built a home on campus called Rebel's Rest. This portion of his collection deals with the fundraising...
Names and information of Tennessee convicts imprisoned and forced to work in Tracy City, Tennessee, between 1870 and 1896 by the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company. More information is at: www.stockadeproject.com
Leonidas Polk, first Bishop of Louisiana, founded the University of the South. Born to a wealthy planter family in North Carolina, Polk first attended West Point, but turned his attention toward the episcopacy. In the immediate antebellum period the Episcopal church spread south and west,...
This project is coordinated by Taneya Koonce & Billie McNamara.
Welcome to the Tennessee Historical Newspaper Indexing project. The newspaper pages provided here are ready for indexing.
Our interest is in local news only - news specific to Tennessee (and communities in bordering states). Please do not index national news. For detailed instructions,...
Farmer and sheriff in Maury County, Tenn. Diary and other records of Nimrod Porter. The diary, 1861–1871, records daily life during the Civil War and Reconstruction; weather; farm and business activities; operations of Union and Confederate armies and guerillas in Maury County and vicinity; news...
William McKendree Robbins was professor at Normal College (later Trinity College), Randolph County, N.C., 1851-1853; lawyer in Alabama, and Salisbury and Statesville, N.C.; and North Carolina congressman, 1873-1878. Papers consist of love letters, 1849-1854, between Robbins and his future wife,...
Fred Dudley Swindell was born 2 March 1882 in Kingston, N.C., to Frederick Dallas (b. 1846) and Sue Decater Swindell. His brother, Charles LeRoy Swindell, was born on 1 December 1884, in Wadesboro, N.C. Charles attended the University of North Carolina in the early 1900s and became a physician...
Help us make David C. Driskell’s incredible life of art, teaching, and scholarship more accessible to everyone!
David C. Driskell was an inspiration to so many of his colleagues, students, and fellow artists, including Jacob Lawrence and Aaron Douglas. He passed away from...
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Introduction to the Brooke Family
The Brooke Family were landowners and members of the Quaker community in Sandy Spring, Maryland. Their family was made up of Robert (father), Mary (mother), and their ten children. When they first...
The Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture (PSPA) is the oldest agricultural society in the United States. Organized in 1785, it has played key roles in developing many of the farming methods and institutions responsible for the abundance that is the hallmark of our modern food system....
The Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania houses a wide variety of recipe books among its collections. These include culinary recipes, comprising food and drink; medicinal recipes, for both humans and animals; household recipes, for...
General manuscripts digitized and available on Collections U of T at https://collections.library.utoronto.ca/view/fisher2:root
The USDA National Agricultural Library is one of five national libraries of the United States and houses one of the world's largest collections devoted to agriculture and its related sciences.
The National Agricultural Library (NAL) is collaborating with the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) in a cooperative collection building and digitization project that will serve to support biodiversity and scientific research in Ukraine, help preserve rare and unique Ukrainian cultural...
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These volumes record the assessment of real and personal property. They were used for taxing purposes. Individual city...
The city council minute books were created as the official record of the city council meetings. Typical entries contain information about budgeting and finance; city ordinances; business and professional licensing procedures; department activities; and improvements in public service such as...
Born in 1879 in Gavle, Sweden, Joseph Hillstrom (also known as Joe Hill) immigrated to the United States in 1902, and worked in a variety of jobs including laborer, miner, lumberman, and longshoreman. The often brutal working conditions he witnessed led him to join the Industrial Workers of the...
Special Collections preserves and provides access to a diverse archive of legal history materials and the records. Our collections include rare books, manuscripts, archival records and publications, faculty writing, and photographs.
This manuscript style or form book was created by James Armour of Edinburgh from about 1698 to 1701. Armour, the son of James Armour, merchant in Glasgow, first registered as an apprentice in 1684 to Alexander Wright who was a merchant in Edinburgh. He later became a writer and was admitted a...
The C.S.S. Alabama Claims Project features over 100 documents that explore the American Civil War's international legal dimensions. Boston attorney and future U.S. Congressman William W. Crapo corresponded with numerous fellow lawyers and clients between 1870 and 1876 to secure restitution from...
The documents in this collection contain the stories of nineteenth century English lives. Solicitors J. M. Shugar and A. W. Vaisey worked as probate and property lawyers in the town of Tring, Hertfordshire, in south central England. They handled wills, estates, and personal property issues for...
The UVA Library is the foundation on which UVA built a transformative educational community. The Library partners in learning and collaborates in discovery by creating inclusive and sustainable collections, services, spaces and infrastructure.
This collection contains the private letters written by the Rev. John W. Alvord, a Civil War Army Chaplain and Freedmen's Bureau Superintendent of Schools and Finance. Rev. Alvord was a significant historical figure best known for his Letters from the South, Relating to the Condition of...
The Matriculation Books of the University of Virginia (RG-14/4/2.041, Small Special Collections Library), document each new and returning student to the University of Virginia officially registered: name, birth date, parent or guardian, place of residence, and courses of study.
Records for...
The Holsinger Studio Collection in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia constitutes a unique photographic record of life in Charlottesville and Albemarle County from before the turn of the century through World War I through through ~9,000 glass...
We need your help to bring the story of monumental expeditions to Syria back to the modern world. These expedition notebooks within the archive detail information about the ancient world not present in published volumes.
Welcome to the transcription project for the Howard Crosby Butler Archive!
We need your help to bring the story of monumental expeditions to Syria back to the modern world. These expedition notebooks within the archive detail information about the ancient world not present in...
The Voices of the Eastern Shore project is digitizing, transcribing, and annotating letters, manuscripts, ledgers and other archival materials related to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia.
The Voices of the Eastern Shore project is digitizing, transcribing, and annotating letters, manuscripts, ledgers and other archival materials related to the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia prior to 1900. The initial phase of the project focuses on the family of Littleton D. Teackle and...
The Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington is a resource for scholars, students, and all those interested in George Washington, colonial America, and the Revolutionary and founding eras.
"Minutes made by S.[amuel] V.[aughan] from Stage to Stage on a Tour to Fort Pitt or Pittsbourg in company with Mr. Michl. Morgan Obriar. from thence by S.V. only -- through Virginia Maryland and Pennsylvania."
Bound, small octavo, 70-72 pages, 7 full or half page water color sketches. A...
The Correspondence of Baron de Vioménil Project is part of a grant funded effort at the Washington Library to transcribe and translate the manuscript papers of Vioménil, a French officer who served during the American War for Independence.
Learn more about Vioménil's life here
The...
Western University Archives and Special Collections acquires and preserves records of the University, records of individuals and organizations, rare books, and maps that complement the teaching and research needs of our community.
This is a hand written list of titles contained in Bishop Hellmuth's (1817-1901) personal library. It was purchased by Barnett in 1895, at the sale of the Bishop's library, as stated in Barnett's inscription in the book.
Bishop Isaac Hellmuth was the Founder of Huron College, Hellmuth Boys'...
Indigenous records for the Chippewas of Sarnia (now known as Aamjiwnaang First Nation) are held within the Wawanosh Sands Mern Family fonds. They were band Chiefs in the 19th and early 20th century.
J. Davis Barnett (1846-1926) was an engineer with the Grand Trunk Railway in Canada. He also built a huge library on his many interests and was a noted bibliophile. His library and archives were donated to Western Libraries in 1918, with him acting as our first 'librarian' cataloguing his own...
The mission of the Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation is to collect, transcribe, publish, and digitally preserve Wilford Woodruff's records. These documents represent a very small portion of Wilford Woodruff's Papers. As these documents are transcribed, completed documents will be taken down...
Welcome to Wisconsin Scribes, a Documentary Discovery Project by the Wisconsin Historical Society. To begin, Sign Up for a free account and select one of the transcription projects. Read the collection description for more information.
This collection comprises citizen petitions written to the legislatures of the Wisconsin Territory and later the State of Wisconsin, from 1836 to 1891. At the time, petitions were the only direct means for citizens to communicate with the government.
From requesting dams, roads, and money to...
Manuscripts and ephemera documenting the lives of women in Wisconsin.
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NEW! Jane Lloyd Jones Correspondence of Jane Lloyd Jones concerning the difficulties encountered in the operation of Hillside Home School in the Town of...
Scans taken from the Library of Congress.
Finding aid available at: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009194
The Woodson Research Center is the special collections department of Fondren Library at Rice University. It contains university archives and the library’s rare book and manuscript collections.
The business records of William Marsh Rice comprise data on his personal investments, his estate records and those of the Institute: ledgers; journals; cash books; day books; check registers; tax records; bank statements; land surveys; payroll and student accounts; letters to and from Rice...
Images collected by members of the Pleasantville community, and preserved at Rice University.
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The mission of the Z. Smith Reynolds Library is to inspire learning, advance knowledge, and build community at Wake Forest University.
Documents from the early history of Wake Forest, from its founding in 1834 through the late 19th century.
Manuscript recipe books offer invaluable glimpses into early modern society, encompassing cookery, health remedies, household goods, and more. They illuminate gender roles, women's networks, domestic labor, healing practices, and the effects of imperialism on daily life. The Domestic Knowledge...
Transcription projects from the Wake Forest University Archives.