Resurrecting the First American West

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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 this pioneering work of digital history. Now, the Filson seeks transcriptions for both the original documents published in FAW as well as new selections that expand the range of diverse voices represented in the vibrant and globally contested Ohio River Valley of the late-18th and early-19th century.

Works

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Letter from Thomas P. Hart to Isaac Robertson Gwathmey, 4 March 1813

Letter from Thomas P. Hart discusses some of the soldiers killed at the Battle of River Raisin, Michigan.

3 pages: 0% complete (0% indexed, 100% transcribed, 100% needs review)

List of expenses for a trip from Kentucky to the Northeast, 1822

7 pages: 0% complete (0% indexed, 100% transcribed, 100% needs review)

Magendie's Physiology medical publication, February 1822

Medical publication broadside for Magendie's Physiology.

4 pages: 0% complete (0% indexed, 100% transcribed, 100% needs review)

Orderly book for Anthony Wayne, 1794

Collaboration is restricted.

36 pages: 0% complete (0% indexed, 44% transcribed, 44% needs review)

Religious broadside from Lorenzo Dow, 2 November 1815.

Broadside published by Methodist Evangelist Lorenzo Dow, which advises people to pray morning and night and to prepare to meet their God. It states, "Wars-- Pestilence-- Earthquakes and Famine-- the signs are ominous; but it shall be well with those whose GOD is the LORD!!"

1 page: 0% complete (0% indexed, 0% transcribed)