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Mount Auburn Cemetery
Established in 1831, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is the first rural cemetery in the country. 19th-century records tell the story of the initial vision and how it is has evolved as a designed landscape and burial site. Including letters between its founding...
Histoire des collections du Mobilier national (France)
Découverte historique à travers les centaines de registres qui ont consigné la présence des collections dans les Palais depuis le XVIIe siècle, etc.
Greenville Army Air Base
The Greenville Army Air Base (later known as the Donaldson Center) opened in 1942 as a bomber training base in support of World War II
Travel Diaries Collection
To celebrate the warmer weather and the beginning of Spring and Summer travel season, for this Transcribe-A-Thon we will be transcribing travel diaries! These diaries contain the itineraries of Sandy Spring residents as they traveled to various destinations around the world, such as the American...
Princeton Expeditions to Syria (1899, 1904-1905, 1909)
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...
Mauritius BM Project
The Bois Marchand Cemetery was established in 1867, due to the malaria epidemic. The land was donated by the Marchand family. The Archive consists of Burial Registers (BR) and Graves Purchased Books (GPB), in the form of bound printed forms. They were written in English and on a daily basis from...
Dry Tortugas National Park Histories Project
Before its designation as a National Park, Dry Tortugas and Fort Jefferson already had a long history of occupation and abandonment. Construction of the fort began in 1846 and by the time the Civil War broke out, the fort was only halfway done. During the Civil War, Union forces were stationed...
John D. Lee Case File
Collection Status: Transcription Complete Explore the Subjects tab to see all the names and places getting linked from within documents. About the Collection Case files document criminal cases as they proceed through the court system and subsequently become the official files of individual...
Jeffersonville Land Office Receipt Books
Sales of public land by the United States Government in Indiana began in 1801. Sales at the Jeffersonville Land Office began in 1808. This receipt book from the Jeffersonville Land Office gives the name and residence of the purchaser, the dates of the purchase, the legal description of the...
St. Paul Catholic Church Baptismal Ledger 1854-1909
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...
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White Hall and the Clay Family
Only two documents still need to be transcribed, but because of the way they were written they will be extremely difficult to complete. This collection of letters and documents was pulled from the White Hall Historical Collection and the Cassius M. Clay Collection. All materials relate to the...
Boyds Store Daybook, Boyds Md.
This ledger belongs to the Boyds Historical Society and appears in Sandy Spring Museum's collection in partnership between the two organizations. Both are located in Montgomery County, Maryland
St. Louis City Block Books, 1876
Each page of this 10 volume set covers a single block in the City of St. Louis at the time of the publishing in 1876. The pages show the surrounding streets, lot owners, and block history.
Tennessee Birth Records - 1923
The Tennessee State Library & Archives holds birth records that are older than 100 years. Birth records are confidential for 100 years under state law. Records less than 100 years old are held by the Tennessee Office of Vital Records and must be requested from that office. Tennessee began...
Railway Accident Project
Part of a joint initiative between the University of Portsmouth, the National Railway Museum (NRM) and the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick (MRC). We’re also working with other institutions including The National Archives of the UK and the RMT Union. The aim is to make it...
World War II Operation Market Garden - Accounts from the Cornelius Ryan Collection
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, A Bridge Too Far, the documents include firsthand accounts from military personnel who participated in...
City of Dallas Building Permit Books
This is a collection of City of Dallas building permit inspectors' log books starting in 1905 and continuing until the early 1970s. The collection is permanently retained at the Dallas Public Library in the Dallas History & Archives division. The log books contain original permit applicant...
Resurrecting the First American West
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...
P.W. Johnson Diary
In the fall of 2024, this diary was used in the class, "Environmental Issues of the Earth's Cold Regions". Each of the students were assigned a page to transcribe and index, and they all did a great job! Now we need your help in finishing and correcting the transcriptions. Please leave...
Taylors
Taylors history begins with the opening of the Chick Springs resort community in 1840. Nearby in 1869, Alfred Taylor finished acquiring all the land that would eventually become the heart of Taylors and successfully lobbied for the railroad to be built through his property a few years later. A...
San Francisco Earthquake Collections
On April 18, 1906, at 5:12 a.m., San Francisco was nearly destroyed by a great earthquake and an ensuing devastating fire. The earthquake ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. It was felt from southern Oregon to south of Los Angeles and inland as far as central Nevada....
2 Mount Auburn Cemetery Trustees Records
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.
1 Mount Auburn Cemetery Letters and Invoices
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...
5 Mount Auburn Tutorial Documents
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...
3 Mount Auburn Cemetery Copying Books and Ledgers
Copies of letters (1860-1924) written by Mount Auburn's Superintendents, Secretaries, Treasurers, to and from Lot Proprietors. Providing a first hand account of the creation of a greenhouse and nursery, appointment of a Gardener's position, the installation of fountains in the ponds, and the...
Art and Sculpture
Works dealing with the commissioning, construction, and maintenance of artworks by the Cemetery or individuals. This will include the Bigelow Statue commissions, Ballentine & Allen stained-glass, the Sphinx, and other notable sculptural monuments.
Horticulture
A selection of documents highlighting horticultural practices at Mount Auburn Cemetery. Includes letters, invoices, and other material that deal with the purchasing, growing, and care of plants
Dartmouth Medical School Student Notebooks
Help transcribe Dartmouth Medical School history! The Dartmouth Medical School was founded in 1797 by Nathan Smith who, in 1796, petitioned the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College for permission to travel to Edinburgh, Scotland to "attend to the several branches of medicine as taught &...