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...
1902 Minute Logic
1903 Lowell Lectures
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)
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Arabic Scientific Manuscripts of the British Library
Help advance research into automatic text recognition technologies for historical Arabic handwritten texts. Below you will find selected pages from some of the British Library's most important Arabic Scientific Manuscripts. We need your help to transcribe them in order to create a freely...
Arabic documents
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...
BL 10017 Pisan Chronicle
13th-Century Pisan chronicle in the British Library, catalogue number 10017
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...
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.
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.
DALME Italian Sources
A collection of transcribed inventories from Italian Archives
Deciphering Dickens
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...
Demo Collection
Used for demos of the tool. Works listed here may be removed without notice.
Dylan Thomas
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...
Français 6049
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.
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...
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,...
Galveston City Company Records
Ledgers containing meeting minutes, proceedings, and other organizational documentation and records for the Galveston City Company, based in Galveston, Texas.
Geek Weekly Reviews
This is a collection of reviews published in Geek Weekly Fanzine.
George D. Willis Letters
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...
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...
Hebrew Manuscripts Playground
Hopewell
Howitt & Fison papers: 1870-1879
This is a subset of the Howitt & Fison papers collection. It is based on an attempt to automatically extract the dates in the museum's finder list. There may be some errors.
Howitt & Fison papers: 1880-1889
This is a subset of the Howitt & Fison papers collection. It is based on an attempt to automatically extract dates from the Museum's finderlist. There may be errors.
Howitt & Fison papers: 1890-1899
This is a subset of the Howitt & Fison papers collection. It is based on an attempt to automatically extract dates from the Museum's finderlist. There may be errors.
Howitt & Fison papers: Cameron
Letters and notes by A L P Cameron from the Howitt & Fison papers collection.
Howitt & Fison papers: Documents by Fison
Letters and notes by Lorimer Fison from the Howitt & Fison papers collection.
Howitt & Fison papers: Documents by Howitt
Notes and letters written by Howitt himself from the Howitt & Fison papers collection.
Howitt & Fison: Documents by Bulmer
Notes and letters by John Bulmer from the Howitt & Fison papers collection.
Howitt & Fison: documents by Aldridge
Letters and notes by Harry Edgar Aldridge from the Howitt & Fison papers collection.
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...
IIIF Showcase 2018
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 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...
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.
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.
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...
LatAm Evaluation
This project space evaluates ways to encode and reconcile Alcedo's Diccionario Historico-Geographico with Thompson's expanded English version of the text. For more about the project, see the LatAm Pelagios Resource Development Group project site.
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...
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.
Logic Notebook
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...
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...
MS 460-507
Macovei
Correctiones de le filos con textos del Dictionario Encyclopedic Universal scribite per Toma Macovei in anno 1999.
Marcia Kirwan Standley Papers
Correspondence of Marcia Kirwan Standley to her parents.
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...
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: 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...
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.
NYC tenant files
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.
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...
Reverend Lyman Whiting Pastoral Jubilee Correspondence
Letters and postcards sent to Reverend Lyman Whiting on the occasion of his Pastoral Jubilee in 1892. He was living and working in East Charlemont, Massachusetts at the time. The letters contain information about other places he worked around the country, as well as rich genealogical details that...
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...
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.
Schuler 10-010
Shelby Foote Diaries
Shelby Foote Diaries
Stagville Accounts
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.
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...
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...
Stobbs Papers
Syair Jaran Temasa
Projek perintis mentranskrips manuskrip Jawi secara gotong-royong!
Tennessee Copyright Records 1809-1851
Record Book of the US District Court at Nashville for copyrights and a few other court matters
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...
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...
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...
Thornton Manuscripts
Middle English texts from Robert Thornton's Lincoln and London manuscripts.
Transcribe NOLA Jazz Museum Colonial Records
The Louisiana Historical Center at the New Orleans Jazz Museum has digitized its collection of some 70,000 eighteenth-century French and Spanish colonial judicial records. You can view and consult this digital collection online at LAColonialDocs.org. You can also view and consult the original...
UCD Ephemera Collection
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...
UTSA James Morgan Papers
WWI Letters
Letters of Stanford students and alums written during wartime.
WWII Letters
Letters written by WWII servicemen to Stanford president Donald Tresidder and professor Thomas Barclay.
William S. Rosecrans
William Wenham Letters
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...