1871-1900 Yaquina Head Lighthouse Letter books
The Yaquina Head Lighthouse was established in 1873 and is located on the Central Oregon Coast. The stories and history of this site are kept alive by trained interpreters who provide guided historic tours in period clothing. As you help us transcribe these documents we will be able to...
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.
38th CEF War Diary
Transcription of War Diaries for the 38th Eastern Ottawa Battalion (1916-1918)
Ahavat David
This universalistic and rationalistic turn in Fleckeles’s thinking may be attributed in part to a reaction against the havoc wreaked by the public ascendancy in the mid-eighteenth century of the Kabbalah and its related movements—Hasidism and, more relevantly in the Bohemian milieu, Sabbatianism....
Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
We're incredibly proud to have been able to loan eleven manuscripts to the British Library for their exhibition, Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War, making the Parker Library the single largest lender to the exhibition as a whole. As the holder of a quarter of all Old English Manuscripts that...
Anna Cameron Kirkland Letters
Letters to, from, and concerning Anna Cameron Kirkland, gathered from the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, and the Records of the Western State Hospital at the Library of Virginia.
Arabic documents
Arabic Scientific Manuscripts of the British Library
This project is now finished! A huge thanks to everyone who contributed! For the latest news on the British Library Digital Scholarship department's Arabic Handwritten Text Recognition projects visit bl/digital. **************************************** Help advance research into automatic...
Čas Opis – August 1989
Čas Opis je zošitový denník Júliusa Kollera z roku 1989 mapujúci každodenné udalosti a myšlienky najmä v súvislosti s odvíjajúcou sa Nežnou revolúciou. Koller tu svojim grafomanským prístupom buduje mozaiku televíznych a rozhlasových správ, počasia, vlastných názorov a rôznych detailov svetového...
Austin Fanzine Project
The Austin Fanzine Project started as a relatively straightforward digitization and transcription project intended to improve access to the documents of a recently-historical subculture – the Austin, Texas underground music scene of the 1990s. The project has blossomed into a sandbox for...
Ben Yehuda
Boehm/Casement Papers
The Boehm/Casement Papers consist largely of letters from Roger Casement to Captain Hans Boehm, during Casement's stay in Germany in 1915, as well as some associated material (photographs, medals) relating to his first contact with the German authorities in November and December 1914 and the...
C. S. Peirce Manuscripts
The goal of the Scalable Peirce Interpretation Network (SPIN) is to develop a model environment for distributed collaboration that can support an international network of researchers, students, and citizen scholars in cooperative efforts to encode and interpret handwritten manuscripts, including...
Cartas dos mercedários do Pará
Coleção de documentos de fonte primária, cartas, atas, capítulos, requerimentos, entre outros documentos produzidos pelo Convento das Mercês do Pará durante o tempo que estiveram ali (1639-1794)
Cas Opis
Čas Opis je zošitový denník Júliusa Kollera z roku 1989 mapujúci každodenné udalosti a myšlienky najmä v súvislosti s odvíjajúcou sa Nežnou revolúciou. Koller tu svojim grafomanským prístupom buduje mozaiku televíznych a rozhlasových správ, počasia, vlastných názorov a rôznych detailov svetového...
Clelia D. Mosher Papers
The collection contains primarily correspondence, writings (published and unpublished), diaries, and biographical and genealogical material spanning the years 1886 to 1938. Correspondents include Ray Lyman Wilbur, William H. Welch (President of Johns Hopkins), David Starr Jordan, and Havelock...
Codex Marchalianus
Cozza-Luzi / Ceriani, Prophetarum codex graecus Vaticanus 2125 phototypice editus (Cozza-Luzi, Giuseppe (Iosephus) / Ceriani, A. - 1890)
Communist Miscellany
Files, dossiers, and ephemera from the Mao-era in China. Paperwork of the Chinese communist revolution.
Correspondence of Cardinal John Henry Newman, 1834-1889
This collection comprises several letters of John Henry Newman, founder of the Catholic University of Ireland, of which University College Dublin is the successor.
The C.S.S. Alabama Claims Cases, 1870-1876
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...
Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi, 1859-1882
The Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi, 1859-1882 project is digitizing, transcribing, and annotating the nearly 20,000 documents in the state's governors' collections for the long Civil War era. CWRGM spans nine administrations that begin in 1859 — capturing the perspectives of...
DALME Italian Sources
A collection of transcribed inventories from Italian Archives
Damenverein
Giusticiati: Italian Manuscript List of Persons Condemned to Death in Venice, 726-1804
This manuscript contains the names of 1068 Venetians executed between 726 to 1804. It records names, dates of execution, crimes, and method of execution. Relatively few executions are listed until the late sixteenth century, and almost half of the total listed in this document occurred in the...
Čas Opis – December 1989
Čas Opis je zošitový denník Júliusa Kollera z roku 1989 mapujúci každodenné udalosti a myšlienky najmä v súvislosti s odvíjajúcou sa Nežnou revolúciou. Koller tu svojim grafomanským prístupom buduje mozaiku televíznych a rozhlasových správ, počasia, vlastných názorov a rôznych detailov svetového...
Deciphering Dickens (prototype)
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...
Deciphering Dickens (current version)
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...
Alfred Doten Diaries, 1849-1903
Alfred Doten began his daily diary at the age of 19 on the day he left his home in Plymouth Massachusetts for the gold fields of California aboard the ship Yeoman. His last entry was written 53 years later on the day before he died, cold, penniless and alone, in Carson City, Nevada. During the...
The Scientific Notebooks of French Lily Specialist Pierre Étienne Simon Duchartre
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lenhardt Library has received a grant award from the Illinois State Library for digitization. This grant, for uniquely held items in Illinois, allows us to digitize one-of-a-kind handwritten, nineteenth-century manuscripts for which no other copy exists. The...
Early American Shorthand
Examples of early American shorthand
East Civil War Letters
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 was...
Ellen Wallace Diaries
Ellen Wallace's diaries are part of the Kentucky Historical Society's archival collection MSS 52 Ellen Wallace and Annie Starling diaries. Ellen Kenton McGaughey Wallace was a member of a landowning and slaveholding family in southern Christian County, Kentucky. At the beginning of the Civil...
Emilie Todd Helm Scrapbook
Scrapbook of Civil War-related materials collected during and after the war by Emilie Todd Helm, widow of Confederate Brigadier General Benjamin Hardin Helm and half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. The clippings were pasted into a Todd family account book from the late 1840s, parts of which are...
Emporia (Va.)
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Festival Book for Charles VI
First edition of a sumptuous festival book commemorating the inauguration of HRE Charles VI in 1717 as Count of Flanders, featuring an allegorical frontispiece and 6 large folding plates, including four engravings of the extravagant fireworks displays that followed the ceremony.
Florentine Gabelle 1411
Temple University https://digital.library.temple.edu/digital/collection/p15037coll19/id/3328/rec/1
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.
Gabriel García Márquez
The papers of Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian-born Nobel Prize–winning author, journalist, screenwriter, and key figure in Latin American history and politics, consist of manuscript drafts of published and unpublished works, research material, photograph albums, scrapbooks, correspondence,...
GDR Living Room Documents
The German Democratic Republic (GDR) was a communist state established in 1949 within the boundaries of the Soviet Occupation Zone in Germany after the Second World War. Those who lived in the GDR spanned various generations from those who were born in the Weimar Republic or Nazi Germany to those...
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 work...
Governor's Executive Orders & Proclamations
Governor's Executive Orders & Proclamations
Hampton (Va.)
Hazel Hansrote's Genealogical records, 18th century to 1975
Hazel Groves Hansrote was a well-known preservationist and long-time historian, writer, and researcher of Allegany County and state history. In the early 1970s she served as Chair of the Allegany County Committee of the Maryland Historical Trust. Along with Mary C. Miltenberger she also served as...
Henrietta Webb Letters
Henry Lane Stone Civil War diary
This one item collection is an 1864 pocket diary primarily written by Henry Lane Stone, who took the diary from a Union soldier he had captured on February 14, 1865. Stone was part of the Confederate States of America Army, Company D of the 9th Kentucky Calvary. This diary records the final...
Howitt and Fison Papers
At the end of the 19th Century A.W. Howitt and Lorimer Fison collaborated on pioneering anthropological research in Australia and the Pacific. Their book Kamilaroi and Kurnai (1880) revealed the complexity and diversity of Aboriginal society and pioneered important advancements in anthropological...
Indiana World War I Service Record Cards
Help the Indiana Archives commemorate the centennial of World War I by indexing our collection of service record cards. These cards detail the military service of Indiana men and women who served in the armed forces at the time of World War I. The cards are arranged alphabetically by Army and...
Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department
Founded in 1854 as the Indianapolis Police Department, the principal law enforcement agency of Indianapolis, Indiana, it was consolidated with the Marion County Sheriff's Office in 2007 and became the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department (IMPD). This collection consists of a series of...
Indianapolis Postcards
The Indianapolis Public Library is fortunate to have a collection of over 500 postcards depicting scenes from the city and elsewhere. Without these cards, landmarks such as Wonderland on the eastside, the downtown Traction Terminal, or the Emrichsville Bridge over White River, all now lost, might...
Indianapolis Public Library
Since 1873, The Indianapolis Public Library has served the people of the city, both growing and changing to fit their needs, serving the vision of librarian Eliza Browning's vision to make it "a live thing in the whole town." Available for transcription are letters from librarians and other...
Indianapolis Public Schools
Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) has been an vital public institution throughout the history of Indianapolis and central Indiana. Since its incorporation in 1853, IPS has shaped – and been shaped by – the residents and communities that turned Indianapolis from a small settlement at the mouth of...
Irish Dialect Archive Manuscript Collection
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...
Jack Sheridan log books
Jack Sheridan wrote several log books during his time sailing the vessel 'Portonian' in South Australian waters. The three day to a page diary is for the year Entries are made in pencil at regular intervals throughout the year. The first log has a note in the back page which refers to the...
Jawi Transcription Project
This is a pilot project to experiment with crowd-sourced transcription of Malay manuscripts written in Jawi. Ini adalah projek perintis untuk transkripsi manuskrip Melayu dalam huruf Jawi secara gotong-royong.
Jeffrey Protector Diary
This diary, written by George Frederik Jeffery, talks about an expedition on board the H.M.S Protector from Port Adelaide to the Boxer Rebellion in China. Commencing on 6 August 1900, Jeffery writes of his experiences on board the PROTECTOR. He explains the entire journey as they stop at...
Jesse Townsend Sermons 1807-1819
Eight sermons written by Townsend, who served as pastor of the Western Presbyterian Church in Palmyra, New York, between 1817-1820. Many of the sermons were first given by Townsend in Durham and Madison, New York before being given in Palmyra. Sermons were used through 1830. Sermon of 20 November...
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.
Julia Brumfield Diaries
Julia Ann Craddock Brumfield kept a diary from 1915 until 1936. Some time after her death, those diaries were distributed among her many grandchildren. Over the last twenty years, nearly half of those diaries have been reassembled to be shared among Julia's descendants. The project is actively...
The Scientific Notebooks of German Orchidologist Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s Lenhardt Library has received a grant award from the Illinois State Library for digitization. This grant, for uniquely held items in Illinois, allows us to digitize one-of-a-kind handwritten, nineteenth-century manuscripts for which no other copy exists. The...
Charles A. Spolyar KZSU Playlist Collection
Collection contains Spolyar’s hand-written playlists from his radio shows on the Stanford student station, KZSU, as well as program guides, time schedules, and memoranda.
Lenhardt Library Transcription Examples
The exemplar pages in this collection have been transcribed according to the conventions established for the Citizen Science Literature Project run by the Lenhardt Library of the Chicago Botanic Garden.
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,...
Letter book for the Receiver of Wrecks at Kingston upon Hull, England, 1855-1861
This handwritten letter book was kept for James Sparrow, who worked for the British Board of Trade as the Receiver of Wrecks at Kingston upon Hull, 1855-1861. The volume begins with an index of correspondents and subjects. While the book primarily records copies of all outgoing mail, there are...
Letters of the Office of Indian Affairs, 1849-1880, California Superintendency
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...
Letters to/from Samuel Kearsley 1825-1828
Letters to and from Samuel Kearsley while he was serving in the Army.
Local Draft Board Records
About the TranscribeNC Project Lists compiled by the local county draft boards in North Carolina of men who enlisted or were drafted during WWI. How to Help Transcribe Documents The transcription conventions, or “rules,” are located at the bottom of every page in the transcription view. For...
Loreto 1916
The Institute of the Blessed Virgin was founded by Mary Ward in 1609. It is a religious institute of pontifical right dedicated to apostolic works’, living according to the Ignatian tradition [IBVM Constitutions 2009, Volume II: Chapter I; 1.1]. Mary Ward’s idea of religious life was based on the...
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...
Leland Stanford, Jr. Papers
Correspondence, journal, notebooks, drawings, personality studies, and school work of Leland Jr., and condolences to Senator and Mrs. Stanford regarding the death of their son. The correspondence and journal relate primarily to family travels in Europe and activities at home in San Francisco and...
Luke Wadding Papers
This project draws from a digital facsimile of UCD-OFM, MSS. D.01 <https://digital.ucd.ie/view/ivrla:18726>. It represents selections from the first five volumes of Luke Waddings Papers. This amounts to 1,080 pages which have been disbound, cleaned and strengthened by professional...
Macovei
Correctiones de le filos con textos del Dictionario Encyclopedic Universal scribite per Toma Macovei in anno 1999.
Margaret Bayard Smith Transcription Project
The Margaret Bayard Smith Digital Edition is a project to transcribe and annotate the more than 3,000 letters, diaries, and commonplace books, written by Smith during her lifetime (1778-1844). The manuscripts are owned by the Library of Congress and a handful of letters are held by other...
Maryland State Archives: 1978 Marriage Certificates
Marriage certificates are among the most requested records here at the Maryland State Archives. These records are needed to apply for a driver’s license, passport, Social Security and health benefits, a mortgage, and for other important life events. Women especially need these documents to...
Mary Lesnett Letters
Letters of Mary Lesnett (Carpenter), who attended Stanford from June 1944 to June 1948, when she graduated with an AB in Political Science. The letters include discussion of student campus life, and WWII. Lesnett lived in Roble Hall during her Freshman year. During her remaining three years she...
Maryland State Archives: 1979 Marriage Certificates
Marriage certificates are among the most requested records here at the Maryland State Archives. These records are needed to apply for a driver’s license, passport, Social Security and health benefits, a mortgage, and for other important life events. Women especially need these documents to prove...
May Wright Sewall Papers
The May Wright Sewall Papers are a collection of documents comprised of approximately 500 letters written to May Wright Sewall dated between 1879 and 1919, and three guest books with remarks and signatures from 197 guests of the Sewall house. The correspondents represented in this collection...
Mosman 1914-1918
To commemorate the centenary of World War One, Mosman Library is creating an online resource to collect and display information about the wartime experiences of local service people. Help us transcribe diaries, letters and honour rolls.
The Collected Letters of Nano Nagle
A collection of the surviving letters of Honora (Nano) Nagle (1718-1784), foundress of the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (PBVM). Nano Nagle brought the Ursuline congregation to Ireland, before founding the Presentations. This collection represents a digital reunification...
Transcribe NOLA Jazz Museum Colonial Records
The Louisiana Historical Center at the New Orleans Jazz Museum has digitized its collection of eighteenth-century French and Spanish colonial judicial records. You can consult this digital collection online at LAColonialDocs.org. You can also consult the original documents in the Louisiana...
Čas Opis – November 1989
Čas Opis je zošitový denník Júliusa Kollera z roku 1989 mapujúci každodenné udalosti a myšlienky najmä v súvislosti s odvíjajúcou sa Nežnou revolúciou. Koller tu svojim grafomanským prístupom buduje mozaiku televíznych a rozhlasových správ, počasia, vlastných názorov a rôznych detailov svetového...
NYC tenant files
Čas Opis – Október 1989
Čas Opis je zošitový denník Júliusa Kollera z roku 1989 mapujúci každodenné udalosti a myšlienky najmä v súvislosti s odvíjajúcou sa Nežnou revolúciou. Koller tu svojim grafomanským prístupom buduje mozaiku televíznych a rozhlasových správ, počasia, vlastných názorov a rôznych detailov svetového...
On the Margins of History
An online research tool to enhance the study of the marginal texts in CCCC41.
Oram Diaries Test Collection (form-based)
Sample of several pages from the Oram Diaries to evaluate transcription tools
Oram Diaries Test Collection (unstructured)
Test collection using 'pipe' character to delimit structured text
Pan Tianshou
This is a series Pan Tianshou written documents from a book. The book only provides all the photos, but no transcriptions.
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.
Passat Diary
This diary provides a detailed description of Betty Northmore’s life as a stewardess onboard the Passat. She details her duties as a stewardess as well as the weather, activities on the ship and descriptions of other crew members. Her voyage on the Passat started from Port Talbot to Port Victoria...
Photographs Collection of Paul Cliff Domke and Jack Caton in China, 1937-1939
Two Carleton representatives, Paul Cliff Domke and Jack Caton, who participated in Carleton-in-China program, stayed in Fenyangy, and Xian in the years of 1937 to 1939. The areas that they both stayed and visited had included but were not limited to: Fenyang & Linfen (Shanxi Province), Xian...
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Practicing Law in the Early American Republic
The papers offered here feature documents written by major figures from the American Revolutionary era. These include Samuel Chase, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and future Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; President James Monroe and future president John Quincy...
Prall family bible records
Records from the Prall family Bible, Kentucky Historical Society collection SC 1980. Included are birth and marriage dates related to Benjamin Prall's family and other manuscript material included with the Bible. The Bible was passed from Benjamin Prall to the enslaved Mary Ann Rowe (nee Prall)...
Richmond (Va.)
On 7 January 1919, Governor Davis created the Virginia War History Commission whose goal was “to complete an accurate and complete history of Virginia’s military, economic and political participation in the World War.” The Commission conducted a survey of World War I veterans in Virginia through...
Robert E. Lee Letters
These are sample letters from the Missouri History Museum collections.
Rotch-Wales Collection
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.
Čas Opis – September 1989
Čas Opis je zošitový denník Júliusa Kollera z roku 1989 mapujúci každodenné udalosti a myšlienky najmä v súvislosti s odvíjajúcou sa Nežnou revolúciou. Koller tu svojim grafomanským prístupom buduje mozaiku televíznych a rozhlasových správ, počasia, vlastných názorov a rôznych detailov svetového...
Shelby Foote Diaries
Marcia Kirwan Standley Papers
Correspondence of Marcia Kirwan Standley to her parents.
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...
Stile Book of James Armour, C. 1698
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...
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...
Tenant file
Tennessee Copyright Records 1809-1851
Record Book of the US District Court at Nashville for copyrights and a few other court matters
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The Case of Magdalena, the Former Slave
Archives Départementales des Bouches-du-Rhône 3B 858, and the opening folio is 178r. Marseille, 1407.
The French campaign in Egypt, 1798-1801
A collection of documents relating to the French campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt, 1798-1801.
The James Malcolm Rymer Collection
A collection of documentary digital editions of the penny bloods, dreadfuls, and other works attributed to or edited by James Malcolm Rymer (1814-84). Includes The String of Pearls, or The Barber of Fleet Street: A Domestic Romance (1850). Designed, encoded, and annotated in part by Humanistic...
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 debates...
The Papers of Julian Bond
About the Project: Following the death of civil rights leader Julian H. Bond on August 15, 2015, the University of Virginia acquired the entirety of his papers and moved them to the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library for preservation. In an effort to make the papers accessible...
The Papers of Roger B. Taney, 1792-1820
Roger B. Taney practiced law in his home state of Maryland long before he became an influential member of President Andrew Jackson's cabinet and later wrote the majority opinion in the infamous Dred Scott v. Sanford case (1857) as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Taney...
The Papers of Solicitors J. M. Shugar and A. W. Vaisey, 1850-1914
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 Tesla and Westinghouse Collection
These are documents selected from the Thomas A. Edison Papers archive of nearly 150,000 documents. We would greatly appreciate your help in transcribing the images into text!
Thomas Gilman Collection
Thomas Gilman (1830-1911) purchased his freedom for $1,000 in 1852. Born into slavery in Tennessee, Gilman was brought to California in 1850 to work in the gold mines near Shaw’s Flat. Within two years he earned enough money to free himself.
Thornton Manuscripts
Middle English texts from Robert Thornton's Lincoln and London manuscripts.
Timothy Plowman field books
The Field Museum Library has digitized and added to the Biodiversity Heritage Library Timothy Plowman’s entire field book collection, which spans his career from 1969, when he worked for the botanical museum at Harvard, through his years as a curator of botany at the Field Museum from 1976-1987....
Timothy Plowman field books
The Field Museum Library has digitized and added to the Biodiversity Heritage Library Timothy Plowman’s entire field book collection, which spans his career from 1969, when he worked for the botanical museum at Harvard, through his years as a curator of botany at the Field Museum from 1976-1987....
Transcription Examples
The exemplar pages in this collection have been transcribed according to the conventions established for the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms Project run by the Parker Library. Should you have any questions, or encounter any difficulties, please email us directly at Parker Library Feedback or contact the...
Travel Perspectives
About the TranscribeNC Project The Travel Perspectives collection features narratives and images of tourism as experienced by North Carolinians, found within the holdings of the State Archives of North Carolina. These documents consist of letters, scrapbooks, journals, photographs, postcards,...
UCD Letters
This collection consists of a range of 19th and early 20th century manuscript correspondence, acquired by UCD Library from diverse sources since the foundation of the Catholic University. It includes letters from significant figures, some connected directly to the University, including: Cardinal...
Richard William Weiland Papers
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 from...
William Joseph Despain Missionary Journal
The missionary journal of William Joseph Despain 1900-1902.
William Wenham Letters
Wolff, Gretter, Cusick and Hill Photography Studio Daybooks
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...
Women's History
About the TranscribeNC Project This collection of letters provides a glimpse into the lives of North Carolina women as they changed history in our state and the nation during the 20th century. It focuses on documents gathered from across the holdings of the State Archives, including Private...
World War I Collection
Collection of World War I documents, letters, and photos.
WWI Letters
Letters of Stanford students and alums written during wartime.
WWI Diaries
About the TranscribeNC Project This collection includes World War I diaries from the consistently expanding collections of the State Library and State Archives of North Carolina. How to Help Transcribe Documents The transcription conventions, or “rules,” are located at the bottom of every page...
WWI Letters
About the TranscribeNC Project This collection includes World War I letters (correspondence) from the consistently expanding collections of the State Library and State Archives of North Carolina. How to Help Transcribe Documents The transcription conventions, or “rules,” are located at the...
World War I Questionnaires
These questionnaires give us a glimpse into the lives of WWI veterans. Help us transcribe them! On 7 January 1919, Governor Davis created the Virginia War History Commission whose goal was “to complete an accurate and complete history of Virginia’s military, economic and political...
WWII Letters
Letters written by WWII servicemen to Stanford president Donald Tresidder and professor Thomas Barclay.
Zenas Matthews' 1846 U.S.-Mexico War Diary and Service Papers
SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: Diary written by Z. W. Matthews while a private in the War of 1846 with Mexico. Matthews served under Captain C[hristopher]. B. Acklin's Company B of Col. John C. Hays' First Texas Mounted Riflemen. The diary begins with mention of leaving to join...