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Jawi Transcription Project

This is a pilot project to experiment with crowd-sourced transcription of Malay manuscripts written in Jawi. The first manuscript is British Library Mss Malay B 9. With thanks to the British Library for digitising this manuscript and making it available for reuse. The manuscript can also be...

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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...

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Pan Tianshou

This is a series Pan Tianshou written documents from a book. The book only provides all the photos, but no transcriptions.

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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.

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Humanist Manuscripts

A collection of 15th century Italian manuscripts, for collaborative transcription and translation projects.

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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...

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Diaries and Notebooks of Marian Anderson

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries house the papers of the famed American singer Marian Anderson. As part of a CLIR hidden collections digitization grant the University of Pennsylvania Libraries digitized over 2,500 items from the Anderson collection including several of her handwritten...

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Haines Diary 1

This is the first diary in a series. They are summaries of more detailled journals with information from 1886 onwards. Nellie Haines' brother was Frank Haines a well known music composer who was the organist at Clare Collage at the start of the 1900s. Nellie was born in 1886. She was a...

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David C. Driskell Papers

Driskell’s importance in the art world David C.Driskell was simply a force of nature. He was a brilliant artist in several media, a curator, a collector, a teacher, and as an art historian, he established the foundations of the study of African American art. His CV is so extensive and...

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Manufacture nationale de tapisseries de Beauvais (France)

Les Fabrications des tapisseries de la manufacture de Beauvais de 1724 à 1900 Creation of tapestries from the Beauvais Manufactory from 1724 Le projet d'édition et d'indexation de l'ensemble de la production de cette manufacture est mené depuis 2015 par le Pr Pascal Bertrand (université de...

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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.

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Houghton Library

Home to Harvard’s rare books and manuscripts, literary and performing arts archives, and more: a destination for students, scholars, and the public.

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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...

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Shaker Commonplace Book, 1890-1921

This collection as been fully transcribed (thank you!). You may still help out by proof-reading the transcriptions, and indexing subjects (Authors, Poem Titles, Places, and Organizations) by placing double brackets around them [[like this]]. This commonplace book of poetry was compiled by...

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Saint Dunstan

This is the inaugural event of the Transcription Challenge Framework, led by Tristan B. Taylor. See below for copy-paste special characters.

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Sounding Spirit Hymnody Index

The Sounding Spirit Hymnody Index (SSHI) will provide a single point of access to hundreds of thousands of hymn settings in over 1,300 significant books of vernacular sacred music from the southern United States published between 1850 and 1925.

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La linda poblana: zarzuela en dos actos

An early 19th-century manuscript copy of an unpublished early 19th-century play by playwright Fernando Gavi?la. Fernando Gavi?la was an actor active in Mexico City in the 1790's and early 1800's, who also wrote at least one other play, "La lealtad americana, drama heroyco en un acto" (1796)....

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Colonial North America: Loeb Music Library

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...

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LAGANZ Finding Aids

Index cards and finding aids for the collections of the Lesbian and Gay Archives of New Zealand (LAGANZ) | Te Pūranga Takatāpui o Aotearoa: manuscript papers, posters, books, serials, audio and video. LAGANZ's collections are community-owned and drawn from Aotearoa New Zealand's lesbian, gay,...

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Mahoney Music Collection

The Mahoney Music Collection pertains to the violin and the violin family of instruments, as well as other musical topics, and is comprised of books, periodicals, pamphlets, and ephemera. https://libguides.usd.edu/mahoney

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Art Work & Materials

Embroidery art work & materials.

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alt-text test

experiment setting up an alt-text creation project

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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

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