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The Papers of John B. Minor, 1845-1893
John B. Minor joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1845 at the age of thirty-two. An 1834 graduate of the university, Minor began his teaching career following a decade in private practice. Minor, along with James P. Holcombe, directed the law program at UVA amidst national...
Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers
The papers of Jane L. Stanford pertain largely to the founding and administration of Stanford University, along with her personal and social affairs; included in the papers are correspondence, business records, legal and financial papers, speeches, news clippings, and biographical materials.
Stanford Student Letters and Memoirs
The first series of this collection contains letters, reminiscences, diaries and account books, autobiographies, and other items from a number of Stanford University students. Most of the letters are written home to family members; typical subjects include academic affairs, social life on campus...
George R. Fairbanks Collection
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...
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Records
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.
Papers of James Meenan – Move of UCD to Belfield
Two pamphlets relating to the proposed move of UCD to Belfield: the first document describes the official UCD position on the plans to move to Belfield; and the second one, published by the organization Tuairim, argues that the proposal is undesirable and unnecessary.
Leonidas Polk Family Papers
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,...
Fu Chun Yu Lab Notebooks
Collection consists of three notebooks (in facsimile) kept by Fu Chun Yu while he was a post-doc in Prof. Felix Bloch's NMR laboratory at Stanford; they cover Yu's work with Warren Proctor that lead to a realization of the chemical shift in molecules.
Stanford University Objects Collection
This collection consists of objects relating to the Stanford family, faculty, staff, students, and alumni as well as objects relating to university events. Typical objects include hats, athletic sweaters, souvenirs with Stanford symbols, framed documents and photographs, artwork, banners and...
Presidential and College Administration Correspondence
This collection includes letterpress copybooks that document presidential and college administration correspondence at Kansas State Agricultural College, now Kansas State University, between 1871 and 1901.
Matriculation Books (University of Virginia) V.1 (1825-1855)
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...
Colonial North America: Harvard University Archives
Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript...
UNC Papers
The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at...
Colonial North America: Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Colonial North America at Harvard Library provides access to remarkable and wide-ranging materials digitized as part of an ongoing, multi-year project. When complete, the project will make available to the world approximately 650,000 digitized pages of all known archival and manuscript materials...
The International La Sfera Challenge
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...
University of Nevada Summer School Diaries 1912-1914
In the summer of 2020, the University of Nevada Reno conducted its first summer session off campus, with remote teaching, due to the coronavirus pandemic. 108 years earlier, in 1912, the university held its very first summer session, on campus, but with abundant extra-curricular excursions to...
University Records
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.
19th Century Scientific Catalogs - Geology & Palentology
Handwritten catalogs from the 19th Century, describing scientific specimens collected by the Department of Geology, Middlebury College, including the locations whence specimens were collected and the names of their donors. Transcribing these catalogs helps support research in geology, local...
In Cap and Gown student journal
Issues of journal started by the Western University Literary Society that eventually becomes student newspaper, the University of Western Ontario Gazette.
William R. Aylett Letter, 1854 December 13
William R. Aylett Letter, 1854 December 13 Description of UVA Faculty, Mr. Minor, Miss Burkhead from Orange, students, and Charlottesville Mrs. Judith P. Aylett, Ayletts, King William Co. Va. from Saml. G. Tomp___. Mss 15978
Teaching Paleography 2022
This is a temporary collection for participants of the Folger Institute's Teaching Paleography course to play around with.
World War II at Punahou
It was at 1:10 a.m. on December 8, 1941 that Punahou's war-time fate was decided. Trucks of the Corps of Engineers rolled up to the main gate and Mr. Berger, guard in the vicinity, was informed that the Engineers were taking over the school equipment. Unlike other schools in Hawai‘i,...
STA 201
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Cengiz Tan Arşiv
Bu proje Cumhuriyet’in ikinci kuşak bestecilerinden olan, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi Genel Müzikoloji Bölümü kurucu başkanı Prof. Dr. Cengiz Tanç’a, dijital müzikolojinin sunduğu olanaklar penceresinden yaklaşmayı, böylece uluslararası dijital müzikoloji çalışmalarındaki güncel...
The Edward Mitchell Papers
The work on this collection is complete. Thank you! You can now view all of the documents and transcriptions of The Edward Mitchell Collection on the Dartmouth Libraries website, as well as read about the Edward Mitchell 200th anniversary celebration of being admitted into Dartmouth. Edward...
Philomathesian Society of Middlebury College
The Philomathesian Society was a debate society founded at Middlebury College that became a staple of college life in the early part of the 19th century. While the exact date of the organization’s founding is unknown, it began meeting sometime during the 1802-1803 school year and thrived...
Academic Texts on Friendship
This collection contains academic writings on the subject of friendship from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Thse writings include, for now, mainly dissertations and disputations based on Aristotle's discussion in 'Nicomachean Ethics' VIII and IX as well as Cicero's dialogue 'Laelius'....
Student Organizations
Meeting minutes, financial records, membership lists, libraries of student clubs. Thanks to Tam Gavenas, class of 2025, for scanning these in June 2023.
Student Anti-Slavery Rebellion 1835
The anti-slavery sentiment that was rising in New England created a moral dilemma for the faculty when the students requested approval to establish an anti-slavery society in 1835. The students believed that the moral teachings they were receiving demanded that they show their support for the...
1906 Earthquake
Eyewitness accounts of the 1906 earthquake at Stanford; eyewitness account of earthquake damage to the Stanford and Hopkins houses in San Francisco; and magazine and newspaper accounts of the earthquake and its aftermath.
Leland Stanford Papers
Correspondence, telegrams; business, legal, financial, and official papers; speeches, journals, and newsclippings; and other materials relating to the construction of the Central Pacific Railroad, Stanford's political career, business and financial interests, and the founding and construction of...
Ohio University Board of Trustees Minutes
Meeting minutes document the activities of Ohio University's Board of Trustees, beginning with its 1804 founding. Transcription of these enables full text searching of the volumes for endeavors such as tracing the history of the institution and the region. See the volumes covering 1804-1954...
UNC System Board of Trustees
With the creation in 1932 of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, which included the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and Woman's College in Greensboro, the North Carolina General Assembly appointed a new hundred-member Board of...
Wake Forest Archives
Transcription projects from the Wake Forest University Archives. Current document sets include: Early Wake Forest History and North Carolina Baptist Church Records.
Celestia Rice and June Rose Colby Collection
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...
Illinois State Normal University financial ledger, 1857-1899
This remarkable ledger records the earliest expenditures of the fledgling Illinois State Normal University, including the purchase of desks, chalkboards, and books for the library, as well as such mundanities as the cost of digging a privy for the first building on campus ($18) and the number of...
Transcribe Hopkins Workshop
This event will take place November 9-11, 2023. See the Transcribe Hopkins website for more information: https://transcribehopkins.tcf.lauramorreale.com/
Everett Skillings journals
Journals kept by Everett Skillings, Middlebury College Professor of German. Skillings served as Professor of German from 1909 to 1921 and from 1923 to 1943. He served as Professor of English Literature at Middlebury in 1922.
Olga Hartman Specimen Log Books
Olga Hartman was a distinguished marine biologist known for her extensive work on polychaetes, a class of annelid worms. Her career was marked by significant contributions to marine biology and taxonomy, particularly in cataloging and identifying polychaete species. Hartman's work was primarily...
Manuel Fetter Account Book
Manual Fetter was a professor of Greek at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. The collection is an account book containing a record of personal and household expenses, 1841-1844, kept by Manuel Fetter while he was a professor of Greek at the University of North Carolina, Chapel...
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...
Railway Accidents Project (2)
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 One letters to Edna Holland
Letters to Edna Holland, University of Western Ontario students from friends overseas during the war, including some working at No. 10 Stationary Hospital, 1915-19.
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...
Grace Fleischer Neumann diary, 1949-1953
Diary of Ohio University student Grace Fleischer Neumann covering the years 1949-1953. View full item
Hayes Collection
Johnston and Wood family members owned and operated Hayes Plantation on the Albemarle Sound near Edenton, N.C. Members of the Johnston family include Gabriel Johnston (1699–1752), royal governor of the colony of North Carolina and planter; his brother Samuel Johnston (1702–1757),...
Haywood Family Papers
The Haywood family was a politically and socially influential white family in Raleigh, N.C., with plantations dependent on enslaved labor in Edgecombe County, N.C., and in Greene County and Marengo County, Alabama. The collection includes correspondence, business papers, legal documents, medical...
American University: The Formative Years
This collection contains digitized selections from various collections in the University Archives dating between the 1890s and 1920. These materials relate to the development and growth of American University.
Neal Family Papers
The Neal Family Papers document white farmers and plantation owners, enslaved and free people of color, and freed people in Franklin County, N.C.; Fayette and Henderson counties, Tenn.; Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Hinds County, Miss.; Waxahachie, Tex.; and other areas of the old Southwest in the 19th and...
The Domesday Book of Queen's University
The Domesday Book of Queen's University was established by Queen's Trustees in 1887, at the suggestion of Chancellor Sanford Fleming, to record the names of the university's benefactors and the main events in its history, which were to be written into the book every year. The book was kept up to...
Queen’s University Senate Minutes
The Senate is one of the university's two primary governing bodies and dates back to the beginnings of the University; it was described in the university's Royal Charter of 1841, which willed that the "Principal and all the Professors of the said College shall forever constitute the College...
New Content
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...
Early Wake Forest History
Documents from the early history of Wake Forest, from its founding in 1834 through the late 19th century.
North Carolina Baptist Church Records
The NC Baptist Historical Collection at Wake Forest University includes: over 16,000 titles, church records, association minutes, church files, and 1000+ biographical folders. Learn more about the NC Baptist Historical Collection here.