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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...
Robert E. Lee Letters
These are sample letters from the Missouri History Museum collections.
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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 conservator...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
WWII Letters
Letters written by WWII servicemen to Stanford president Donald Tresidder and professor Thomas Barclay.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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)
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.
Eugene Houghton Civil War letters
Eugene Coolidge Houghton was born March 11, 1844, the son of Robert Coolidge Houghton and Lucy Taylor Forbush Houghton. His hometown was Stow, Massachusetts. During the Civil War, he left Phillips Academy to serve in the 2nd Heavy Artillery Battery C Massachusetts and was promoted to Colonel....
Phillips Family Papers
This collection compiles the legal documents, letters, books, and original works of several members of the Phillips family including Samuel Phillips (founder of Phillips Academy Andover) and his uncle John Phillips (founder of Phillips Exeter Academy). Items in the collections date 1647-1876...
William Henry Harrison letters, 1811-1824.
This collection consists of letters written to Colonel James Taylor and Major (later General) Thomas Bodley by General William Henry Harrison. The first letter, written to Taylor on Dec. 28, 1811, discusses the arrival of hospital stores at a military post. The other letters, written between...
Mother Agnes Hazotte Correspondence
Correspondence written to and from Mother Agnes Hazotte during her tenure as Mother Superior of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes, 1864-1905.
Carter Family Letterbook
Robert “King” Carter (1662/3-1731) was born in Lancaster, Virginia, the son of John Carter and Sarah Ludlow Carter. One of the wealthiest colonists in eighteenth-century Virginia, by the time of his death in 1732, Carter owned over 300,000 acres of land, 48 plantations, and over seven hundred...
Increase A. Lapham Papers, 1825-1930
This Collection has been fully Transcribed Thank you to everyone who helped make this collection more accessible Papers of Increase Allen Lapham, the most prominent figure in early scientific research in Wisconsin. The papers consist of personal and biographical papers, correspondence, and...
High Point Archives Project
Letters, deeds, meeting minutes, and other materials from the collection of the High Point Museum. Many of the Fisher letters describe visits to the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
Madison Friendship Lodge Grand United Order of Odd Fellows: Registers
The Madison Friendship Lodge Grand United Order of Odd Fellows collection (MSS 16411, Small Special Collections Library) contains minute books, financial records, correspondence, event programs, proceedings, a cemetary plot, a framed faternal collar, a fraternal apron, and a flag. Loose...
Papers of Abraham Lincoln
The Papers of Abraham Lincoln is a documentary editing project dedicated to identifying, imaging, transcribing, annotating, and publishing online all documents written by or to Abraham Lincoln during his lifetime (1809-1865).
RCAF letters to Oshawa - WWII
This is a scrapbook containing letters sent from RCAF serviceman to teh RCAF Women's Auxiliary in Oshawa.
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...
Hentz Family Papers
Prominent members of the Hentz family included French revolutionary Nicholas Arnould Hentz (1756-1832); his sons Nicholas Richard Hentz (1786-1850), an officer in the French Imperial Army; and Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (1797-1856), a prominent entomologist; the latter's wife, the writer Caroline...
19th Century Steinbeck Family Papers
This collection consists of letters, diaries and other documents from the Steinbeck family. The materials document their experiences as missionaries in Palestine and their experiences during the Civil War in America.
Public Universal Friend Collection
Papers of the Public Universal Friend (born Jemima Wilkinson), 1752-1819. American sect founder and leader. Collection contains the Friend's writings, as well as letters to and from the Friend from followers (Universal Friends). Collection at Yates County History Center, Penn Yan, New York.
SC62, Samuel Wilmot Fonds: Letterbook, 1886-1889
Help the ROM Library and Archives transcribe the 900+ pages of this letter book of Samuel Wilmot (1822-1899), a pioneering pisciculturist who initiated and led Canada's fish-culture program between 1868 and 1895. Wilmot established a hatchery in Newcastle, ON, intending to save the Lake Ontario...
Thomas T. Sloan letter collection
Collection consists of twenty-eight (28) letters from Bridgett Sloan, of Lexington, Kentucky, to her son Thomas T. Sloan, ranging from 1832-1848 (there are no letters from 1836-1842). From 1832-1834 T. Sloan resided in Washington D.C. In 1834-1835 T. Sloan joined the Marine Corps and moved to...
Millard Fillmore Collection
Letters, personal correspondences, and other documents from United States President Millard Fillmore
Dispatches from China: Letters and Diaries of Stuart & Hummel families
These diaries and letters document the Stuart and Hummel families' life and work in China as Methodist missionaries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are travel diaries of Mildred Hummel (China, Europe, Egypt, and America). There are also diaries and notebooks of Arthur...
Wisconsin Women's History
Manuscripts and ephemera documenting the lives of women in Wisconsin. Visit the Help Page for Transcription Help for this collection. NEW! Jane Lloyd Jones: Correspondence of Jane Lloyd Jones concerning the difficulties encountered in the operation of Hillside Home School in the...
Correspondence, Volume 4: 1881-1888 (documents to come)
The published volume will include 252 letters in full, and 667 calendared (or summarized) documents, for a total of 919 letters.
Reno Divorce Correspondence -- Completed
Reno, Nevada was considered the Divorce Capital of the World for six decades during the Twentieth Century. After the residency requirement was reduced to six weeks in 1931, thousands of men and women spent those weeks in boarding houses, hotels, and "divorce ranches" in Nevada. Special...
Jon Bilbao Correspondence - Translation
During his exile after the Francoist troops conquered the Basque Country in 1937, José Antonio Agirre, the first lehendakari or president of the Basque Government, maintained correspondence with a variety of individuals in exile. First, in connections to his government role while the Basque...
Mayor and Council Proceedings
The Mayor and Council Proceedings are part of the City of Fort Worth Records available at the Fort Worth Public Library Archives. The collection includes the proceedings for 1895-2011, with the years 1895-1902 represented in the digital collection. Full-page transcriptions of council...
Henry & Nellie Mighels Correspondence, 1863-66 -- Completed
Henry (Harry) and Nellie Mighels were prominent Nineteenth-century Nevadans. They both grew up in Maine, where they fell in love when she was sixteen and he was twenty-nine. They carried on a long courtship through letters after Harry left for the Civil War in 1863. After being injured in 1865,...
Federal Writers' Project Papers
CONTENT WARNING: Some of these texts contain offensive and racist language used by the creators of these documents. W. T. Couch (1901), a white publisher and editor, was also a part-time official of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, as assistant and...
Northeast Ohio and the Civil War: Primary Source Manuscripts at Cleveland Public Library
This collection contains a diary, a set of letters, and a manuscript document from the Special Collections at Cleveland Public Library. The first item is the Diary for 1865, George B. Carle, Company K, 90th Ohio Regiment. The diary, part a larger collection, consists holograph entries in a...
Anthony W. Wilkinson Letter Collection
The Anthony W. Wilkinson Letter Collection is composed of approximately 700 letters and postcards which were written by Edith Hartzell Grandy, a former army medic, between the 1860s and 1960s. These letters have been assessed by Gilb Museum staff as invaluable for their inclusion of the...
Albert Ruth Papers
The Albert Ruth Papers is a sub-collection of correspondence, notebooks, and papers within the Mary Daggett Lake Papers. Albert Ruth (1844-1932) was an early North Texas botanist, whose collection of nearly 10,000 specimens was purchased by the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens and was later displayed...
John Buchan fonds
This collection contains records from John Buchan, first Baron Tweedsmuir, author, and former Governor-General of Canada. It includes correspondence, speeches (general and political), writings (published and unpublished), subject files, scrapbooks, and press clippings. Each file name is the...
Francis Forbes - Correspondence relating to the Sudds, Thompson, and Robison cases, ca.1824-1830
In 1826, the privates Joseph Sudds and Patrick Thompson deliberately committed theft in the expectation that they would be transported, a fate they believed to be preferable to continued service in the army. Lieutenant Governor Ralph Darling, Governor of N.S.W., commuted their sentence to a...
Gold Rush Era Collections
Letters written by various people during the Gold Rush era 1848-1855. Please note that historical materials in the Gold Rush Collections may include viewpoints and values that are not consistent with the values of the California State Library or the State of California and may be considered...
Nettie McNaughton Jones Family World War One Letters
Letters 1915-1918 mainly sent to Nettie and other family members from her brother Pte. John Oliver McNaughton, cousin Sgt. John Alexander (Jack) McNaughton and her friend, Pte. David Henry Radcliffe. Review the finding aid for Nettie McNaughton-Jones fonds for more information...
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
Virginia Letters, 1816 and 1826, Accession #10574
In a letter, 1816 January 25, St. George Tucker, Williamsburg, Va., writes to John Coalter on a financial matter and mentions a rumored account of Jefferson's death. In a letter, 1826 July 6, George Tucker, University of Virginia, writes to Gale & Seaton, Washington, reporting Jefferson's death...
William McKendree Robbins Papers
William McKendree Robbins was professor at Normal College (later Trinity College), Randolph County, N.C., 1851-1853; lawyer in Alabama, and Salisbury and Statesville, N.C.; and North Carolina congressman, 1873-1878. Papers consist of love letters, 1849-1854, between Robbins and his future wife,...
19th Century American writers : letters, manuscripts, & correspondence
This collection includes scanned letters, correspondence, and other manuscript items tied to 19th Century American writers and housed at Middlebury College Special Collections. Many famous names and literary careers are represented inside, including Ambrose Bierce, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry...
Civil War letters at Middlebury College
These letters reflect the majority of letters written during the mid 19th century, allowing disparate family members to catch up with one another during the years of the American Civil War. A number of letters in this collection are written from the front lines of the Civil War, explaining the...
Letters from the Hemingway Family Archive
Compiled by writer Leicester Hemingway (1915-1982), the younger brother of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), in the process of researching and writing his biography, My Brother Ernest Hemingway (1962), the collection contains more than 1,600 items. Among the manuscript holdings, the bulk of...
Letters from World War II : J.H. Massey
This collection contains digital scans from 163 handwritten letters written by J.H. Massey during his time in the English Army (Cheshire Regiment) during World War II. Most of the letters were written and sent from Palestine, and discuss naval life, the Cheshire Regiment, England, World War II,...
19th-20th Century women writers : letters, manuscripts, & correspondence
This collection includes scanned letters, correspondence, and other manuscript items by 19th & 20th Century women writers. Many famous names are to be found inside: Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Stoddard, Julia C. R. Dorr, Willa Cather, and Emma Willard are all...
U.S. Civil War letters and journals at Rice University
If you would like to help with transcription for this project, please select one of the works below and then click the "Help" tab for instructions.
Letters of Rev. John W. Alvord
This collection contains the private letters written by the Rev. John W. Alvord, a Civil War Army Chaplain and Freedmen's Bureau Superintendent of Schools and Finance. Rev. Alvord was a significant historical figure best known for his Letters from the South, Relating to the Condition of...
Tennessee Legislative Petitions
Transcription of petitions of citizens to the Tennessee General Assembly (legislative body) for private and public acts from approximately 1801-1870. Images from microfilm. TN State Library & Archives created an index to primary petitioners' names, locations, and subjects. That index is at...
McCuddy family papers
Letters, receipts, legal documents, deeds and other papers from the McCuddy family of Maryland, Woodford County, KY, and Logan County, KY. The collection contains extensive family and local history information, including descriptions of Indian attacks in Illinois as well as family births, deaths...
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...
Hassall family papers, 1793-2000
Hassall Family Papers https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/1Jk404VY This collection contains correspondence, diaries, ledgers, and letter books produced by several generations of the Hassall family. Rowland Hassall (1768–1820) was born in Coventry, England, and was one of the first...
Kennicott Documents
Beginning in 1836, the Kennicotts called The Grove home. The history of their family, their land, and their country are interwoven throughout their letters, photographs, and artifacts. The Grove’s collection represents a rare and precious window into the past and allows us to better understand...
Douglas Hyde Papers : Memoir and Postcards
This collection of documents relating to Douglas Hyde comprises of Hyde's memoir and a collection of postcards.
Thomas Ruffin Papers
CONTENT WARNING: the contents of these papers include depictions of brutal violence and human trafficking by enslavers. Thomas Ruffin, chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, planter, and politician, served in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1813-1816; as judge of the...
Spring 2021 Letters from Telecommuting
These letters were worked on by students workers over the Covid-19 lockdown. They need to be updated and submitted.
Letters concerning disappearance of Maria L. Patterson
"9 autograph letters signed, totaling approximately 34 pages, chiefly between family and friends of Maria L. Patterson, concerning her disappearance en route from New York City to Saco, Maine in March 1867. Letters dated chiefly between April and October 1867, with one undated letter, and one...
Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery
As a part of the process to develop a future archive and website for Native Bound Unbound, we are using the transcription software and portal developed by From the Page for transcribing primary source documents. One of the goals of Native Bound Unbound is to gather documents related to...
William Audley Couper papers
William Audley Couper, son of John Couper (1759–1850) and younger brother of James Hamilton Couper (1794–1866), married Hannah Page King (d. 1896), daughter of Thomas Butler King (1800–1864) and Anna Matilda (Page) King (d. 1859). Couper managed Hamilton, a plantation on St. Simon's Island,...
The Correspondence of Baron de Vioménil (Highlights)
The Correspondence of Baron de Vioménil Project is part of a grant funded effort at the Washington Library to transcribe and translate the manuscript papers of Vioménil, a French officer who served during the American War for Independence. This aspect of the project is set to private...
Manasseh Cutler Papers
This collection includes materials sourced from the Manasseh Cutler Papers. Manasseh Cutler (1742-1823) was a clergyman from Massachusetts who served as a member of the House of Representatives. As an agent of the Ohio Company of Associates, he was involved in the settlement of the Northwest...
Macarthur papers, 1789-1936
Macarthur papers, 1789-1936 https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/YRlZ80gn John Macarthur (1767-1834), soldier and pastoralist, was commissioned as an ensign in the British Army in 1782 and transferred to the New South Wales Corps in 1789 with a promotion to lieutenant. Macarthur, and his...
John Bramblett Beall Letters
John Bramblett Beall (1833-1917) was born in Carroll County, Ga. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he served in the 19th Georgia Infantry Regiment in the Virginia campaigns in 1861 and was wounded in the hip at Mechanicsville in 1862. During his recovery, he served as conscription officer at...
O.E. Rølvaag Correspondence
About O.E. Rølvaag Ole Edvart Rølvaag was born in a fishing village on Dønna, Norway, on April 22, 1876. He immigrated to the United States in 1896 and worked as a farmhand in South Dakota from 1896–98. After graduating from Augustana Academy in Canton, South Dakota, in 1901, Rølvaag earned...
Anne Paston Letters 1591
Two letters from Anne le Strange, wife of Sir Nicholas Le Strange, to her father, Sir William Paston, 1591
Heron-Morton Place Neighborhood Association Handwritten Documents
Digital Indy is looking for help in transcribing various documents dating from 1975-2010, but primarily from the 1980s and 1990s from the Heron-Morton Place Neighborhood Association digital collection. The Herron-Morton Place Neighborhood Association began with a focus on restoration and...
Sandy Spring Area Schools Collection
Spanning as far back as 1844, this collection contains hand written and typed letters, essays, notebooks, and advertisements from various schools and students around Sandy Spring.
1860_letters
This is an index with descriptions of letters. The state name and sometimes category is in the left margin.
QH1 .R861 v.23
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. I. Two letters from a gentleman in the country, relating to Mr. Leuwenhoek's letter in transaction, No. 282. Communicated by Mr. C. QH1 .R861 v.23
Laura White collection
Correspondence written to Laura White, a women's suffrage activist from Ashland, Ky. Her primary correspondent is Susan Look Avery, 1817-1915, founder of the Women's Club of Louisville.
Jack Bentley Baseball Collection
Did you know that Sandy Spring was home to a professional baseball player? Sandy Spring native Jack Bentley was a left-handed pitcher over parts of nine seasons (1913–1916, 1923–1927) with the Washington Senators, New York Giants and Philadelphia Phillies. Outside of his baseball career, Bentley...
Harvard Botany Libraries
The Harvard University Herbaria house five comprehensive, non-circulating research libraries that are managed collectively as the Botany Libraries. The combined collections are rich repositories of rare books, manuscripts, field notes, and historical correspondence, as well as current...
Watson Family Papers: "Slave Notebook"
The Papers of the Watson family (MSS 530, Small Special Collections Library) of Louisa County, Virginia, is comprised of 10,000 items, including business and personal correspondence, ledger books, bank books, farm account books, and various memorandum books of this Louisa County family. Of...
Works of Alfred T. Mahan
Help the NWC Archives transcribe the works of Alfred T. Mahan, considered to be the theortical founder of the 20th century Navy, held in their collections. Mahan had a significant impact on the U.S. Naval War College and naval strategy globally. His theories on the importance of sea power...
Colonial Secretary's Correspondence
State Library of Queensland has digitised the Colonial Secretary's letters received relating to Moreton Bay and Queensland 1822-1860 from a microfilm collection. This large collection of more than 42,000 pages of correspondence over nearly 40 years has been challenging to research. Volunteer...
E. von Hasslocher
A collection of ten letters from Hasslacher in Geyserville, Sonoma County, to his friend, Louis Noll in Oakland. Dated 1873-1876, the letters discuss family matters relating to health and finance, including a request to borrow money. A letter dated Oct. 23, 1876, talks of picking grapes and...
Gardner Family Papers
The Gardner family of Nantucket descended from Richard and John Gardner, sons of Thomas Gardner, a planter who came from England to Salem, Massachusetts in 1626. Their descendants became captains of whaling ships, land owners and merchants. This collection includes correspondence, deeds and...
Letters from Rudiger Wolf
These letters were written by my grandpa Wolf's family to their family back in Germany. My grandpa's nephew Rudiger sent these over.
Maria L. Owen Papers
Maria L. Tallant Owen (1825–1913) was born in Nantucket, Mass., and was a teacher at the Academy on Fair Street. She became interested in Nantucket flora early in her life, collecting and identifying many specimens. In 1888, she published her Catalog of Plants Growing without Cultivation in the...
World War I Letters
Collection Status: Open for transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection 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...
Alan and Nancy Hooper WW2 correspondence, 1940
Alan Hooper served in New Guinea during the Second World War with 1 Papuan Infantry Battalion (1 PIB) and Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). These narratives lead us through his wartime experiences in New Guinea, and the life of his fiancé Nancy at home in Brisbane. Hooper...
Alan and Nancy Hooper WW2 correspondence, 1941
Alan Hooper served in New Guinea during the Second World War with 1 Papuan Infantry Battalion (1 PIB) and Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). These narratives lead us through his wartime experiences in New Guinea, and the life of his fiancé Nancy at home in Brisbane. Hooper...
Revolutionary War Era
Collection Status: Open for transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection The American Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783, secured the independence of the United States of America from Great Britain and established a constitutional democracy. Following...
ILDW: Transcribe-a-thon
Join W&M Libraries for our International Love Data Week 2024: Transcribe-a-thon on Monday, February 12th from 10 am to 4 pm in the Ford Classroom. Help us transcribe historical documents from our Special Collections Research Center and Library Faculty Scholar Research. Throughout the day we will...
World War II Letters
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Intermediate About the Collection This collection includes a sample of World War II letters from the Military Collection of the State Archives of North Carolina. To help with context, such as the names of...
Women's History
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Easy About the Collection This collection of documents provides a glimpse into the lives of North Carolina women as they changed history in our state and the nation during the 19th and 20th centuries. It...
Nueva Crónica (1615)
Colección de documentos relativos a Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (1550-1616 aprox.) y su obra "Nueva Crónica y Buen Gobierno" (Guamanga [Ayacucho], 1613 [1615]). Se reúnen fuentes importantes para comprender mejor la obra, el autor y la perspectiva andina del mundo. Fuente: Biblioteca Real de...
Three Accounts of the Vasil'ev-Shishmarev Expedition of 1819-1822
This collection has been fully transcribed. Thank you! Gleb Semyonovich Shishmarev (1781-1835) and Mikhail Nikolayevich Vasil'ev (1770-1847) were officers in the Imperial Russian Navy. Their expedition of 1819-1822 explored the western coast of Alaska. These papers, from the Vilhjalmur...
Emily Caroline Creaghe - Diary, 22 Dec. 1882 - 5 Sept. 1883
Describes her journey from Sydney in the ship Corea with calls at Queensland ports, reaching Thursday Island 9 Jan. 1883, arrival at Flinders telegraph station 14 Jan. 1883, and the journey from Normanton to Port Darwin, sailing from Port Darwin for Sydney 22 Aug. 1883 on the steamer Feilung....
Vel Phillips Papers, 1951-2009
The Vel Phillips papers, 1951-2009, document the life and career of Milwaukee’s Vel Phillips, whose work as a lawyer, city alder, civil rights leader, judge, and Secretary of State profoundly influenced Wisconsin’s civil rights history throughout the latter half of the 20th century. Of...
DigEdTnT Workshop
Demo project for trying out FromThePage editorial platforms for the Digital Edition Creation Pipelines: Tools and Transitions workshop in Graz, February 23, 2023.
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...
QSA Frontier War Records
Experimental Project that compares transcribing documents with a paid transcriber, with out of the box Transkribus, and with a combination of Transkribus results and a paid transcriber.
Logbooks and Journals
The New Bedford Whaling Museum's archival collections consist of 1700 linear feet of manuscript materials documenting a range of New Bedford and regional industries, including textile manufacturing, cordage manufacturing, tool manufacturing, banking (1825-1936), business papers, whaling and...
Battle Family Papers
The Battle Family Papers document the life of William Horn Battle (1802–1879) of Louisburg, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill, a white lawyer, legislator, judge, and trustee and professor of law at the University of North Carolina; Kemp Plummer Battle (1831–1919) of Chapel Hill and Raleigh, a white...
Student Letters & Diaries
Letters home by students, 1819-1881 and 1934, as well as students journals about their time on campus during the 1850s and 1870s.
Robinson Family Papers
The Robinson Family letters from Rokeby Museum represent several generations of Quaker families in Vermont, especially the Robinsons - a family of farmers, abolitionists, artists, and authors whose home in Ferrisburgh is now a National Historic Landmark and one of the best-documented...
London and Surrounding Area Records
Contains records created by individuals, families, and organizations created in or related to London and the surrounding area.
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...
MSM Manuscript Collections
Collection of maritime primary sources. Logbooks, personal and business letters from the collection of the G.W. Blunt White Library at Mystic Seaport Museum.
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.
Civil War Correspondence
Letters written by various people during the Civil War, 1861-1865. Please note that historical materials in the Civil War Collections may include viewpoints and values that are not consistent with the values of the California State Library or the State of California and may be considered...
Alan and Nancy Hooper WW2 Correspondence, 1944
Alan Hooper served in New Guinea during the Second World War with 1 Papuan Infantry Battalion (1 PIB) and Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). These narratives lead us through his wartime experiences in New Guinea, and the life of his new bride Nancy at home in Brisbane. Hooper...
Dry Tortugas National Park Histories Project
Before its designation as a National Park, Dry Tortugas and Fort Jefferson already had a long history of occupation and abandonment. Construction of the fort began in 1846 and by the time the Civil War broke out, the fort was only halfway done. During the Civil War, Union forces were stationed...
Depression Era (1929-1939)
The United States and may countries around the world were affected by The Great Depression (1929–1939). The Great Depression caused drastic declines in output, severe unemployment and acute deflation in almost every country of the world. The most devastating impact of the Great Depression was...
Central Pacific Railroad Company Lawsuits
Legal documents relating to lawsuits resulting from Central Pacific Railroad stock manipulation. Attorney Alfred A. Cohen represented the plaintiffs, and likely owned these documents. Individual stockholders in these cases received reduced or no dividends from their holdings, or were persuaded...
Jeremiah Burke Sanderson
Jeremiah Burke Sanderson (1821-1875) was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He began his abolitionist work at age 19 as secretary of the New Bedford Colored Citizens, and was associated with many leading abolitionists of the time. Moving to California in 1854 with the intention of making enough...
World War II D-Day Accounts from the Cornelius Ryan Collection
This collection features materials from Ohio University Libraries' Cornelius Ryan Collection of World War II Papers. Gathered as part of Ryan's research process while writing his book, The Longest Day, the accounts include questionnaires, interviews, and correspondence with soldiers who...
The Correspondence of Baron de Vioménil (Public)
The Correspondence of Baron de Vioménil Project is part of a grant funded effort at the Washington Library to transcribe and translate the manuscript papers of Vioménil, a French officer who served during the American War for Independence. Learn more about Vioménil's life here The...
Colonial Secretary's Inwards Correspondence (S5253)
This is the main series of letters received by the Colonial Secretary's Office, and was started following separation from New South Wales in December 1859. The Colonial Secretary’s correspondence contains fascinating stories from the people living and working in the new state of Queensland, in...
Jesse Fell Civil War paymaster records
Jesse W. Fell's (1808-1887) hugely successful land speculation deals has led to him being credited as the founder of several central Illinois towns and counties, as well as Illinois State (Normal) University. During the Civil War, Fell's Quaker faith prevented him from serving as a soldier. He...
Horace J. Austin Papers
Horace J. Austin was a land surveyor in Dakota Territory and later a territorial and state legislator. Highlighted here are Austin’s dairies from 1868 and 1887 as well as correspondence of Horace’s and other members of the Austin family.
Misc. Mothers' Letters Collection
In honor of Mother’s Day, for this month’s Transcribe-A-Thon we will be transcribing letters from our collection written to and from mothers and grandmothers. These letters range from as far back as the 1790s and cover a variety of topics such as family updates, travel experiences, health, and...
Alan and Nancy Hooper WW2 correspondence 1942
Alan Hooper served in New Guinea during the Second World War with the 1 Papuan Infantry Battalion (1 PIB) and the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). These narratives lead us through his wartime experiences in New Guinea and the life of his fiancée Nancy at home in Brisbane....
1930s Los Angeles to Berlin
Correspondence and diaries of an American PhD student studying psychology (and training as a psychoanalyst) in 1930s Berlin. In May, 1929, 24 year-old Marjorie left California and traveled to Berlin, where she spent three years as a graduate student preparing for her career as a...
Alan and Nancy Hooper WW2 correspondence, 1943
Alan Hooper served in New Guinea during the Second World War with 1 Papuan Infantry Battalion (1 PIB) and Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). Read the blog before you begin ! Alan and Nancy Hooper Second World War correspondence This fourth collection of 43 letters are from...
Theodore Roosevelt Papers Reel 135
Portion of Reel 135 of Theodore Roosevelt Papers collection from Library of Congress Manuscript Division. Mix of typed and handwritten letters sent to Theodore Roosevelt in March, 1912.
Tasmanian Papers, 1803-1890
Tasmanian Papers, 1803-1890, re the administration of the Tasmanian convict system A large collection of official records relating to the government and administration of Tasmania. These records relate to both free citizens and convicts and include material as diverse as jury lists,...
Father William T. Punch Letter Collection
Letters from and/or about Father William T. Punch and the Punch family. Donated by a Lexington resident to Lexington Public Library.
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.
Quaise Asylum Records
The Quaise Asylum was constructed in 1822 to harbor the town’s poor. Ten inmates lost their lives during the great fire in 1844 that burnt the asylum down. This collection records Captain Alexander Coffin, who settled at Quaise Asylum in 1839, his correspondence, receipts for produce, and his...
Phillip and Ida Hayman Callery - Correspondence
Handwritten and typed correspondence from the Phillip Henry (1880-1954) and Ida Hayman Callery (1886-1917) collection. The two were lawyers for the United Mine Workers of America, and Socialist lecturers and organizers.
Justin Hess papers
This project consists of German-language correspondence with Justin Hess (1921-2006), a Jewish German immigrant to Louisville. Correspondents include Lisette Stapf, Gottlieb Müller, Hans Große, Rabbi Eggert Hornig, and Walter Haaf. Most letters are from southwestern Germany. Justin Hess...
Levy-Wolff Family Papers
The collection consists of papers of the Levy and Wolff families, Jewish immigrants from the Alsace-Lorraine region of Europe who settled in Louisville, Kentucky. These letters center on the family's efforts to leave France during World War II. For more on the collection, see the finding aid...
Alan and Nancy Hooper WW2 correspondence, 1945
Alan Hooper served in New Guinea during the Second World War with the 1 Papuan Infantry Battalion (1 PIB) and the Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU). These narratives lead us through his wartime experiences in New Guinea and the life of his fiancée Nancy at home in Brisbane....
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),...
Judge Kenneth Lyons Collection
The Judge Kenneth Lyons collection consists of an atlas, a journal, and letters. The atlas features copies of letters written on the blank pages of the atlas. The journal contains family and local history recorded by a Robert K. Bryan. The earliest date of the letters is 1863. Items are from...
Bessie D. Irvine Correspondence
Bessie D. Irvine (1882-1965) was a graduate of Richmond High School and Kentucky State College. She taught 6th & 7th grades in Madison County Schools and was on the Madison County School Board. Miss Irvine taught over fifty years in the public schools of Kentucky. These letters are from friends...
Ellsworth and Webster family papers
The papers of the Oliver Ellsworth and Noah Webster families. Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807) of Windsor, Connecticut writes to his wife, Abigail [Nabby] Wolcott (1756-1818). Noah Webster (1758-1843) correspondence consists of incoming letters, 1828-1843 about books and publishing, and outgoing...
San Francisco Earthquake Collections
On April 18, 1906, at 5:12 a.m., San Francisco was nearly destroyed by a great earthquake and an ensuing devastating fire. The earthquake ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. It was felt from southern Oregon to south of Los Angeles and inland as far as central Nevada....
Abbot Family Papers
Mostly correspondence of members of the Abbot family, who attended Phillips Academy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. These letters document their lives after their time at Andover.
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher Letters
These letters are handwritten by Mary Bosanquet Fletcher (1739-1815) and addressed to unknown acquaintances.
Shopping Stories Transcription Project - Letters
Eighteenth-century merchants kept ledgers that recorded purchases, account holders, and payments. In contrast, they kept letterbooks as a record of the letters sent to the various stakeholders associated with the business - other merchants, ship captains, customers, etc. Through the use of...
Early California
The letters and documents in these collections cover the 19th and early 20th Century in California. From businessmen to travelers, they share their experiences in the state. ** Please note that historical materials in the Early California Collections may include viewpoints and values that are...
Papers of Robert Carter
This item is from the Papers of Robert Carter (1663-1732) and it is a letterbook, 1773-1783, of Charles Yates, containing transcripts of letters regarding social life, legal and financial matters, dry goods, and tobacco.
Navy Yard Correspondence
This collection consists of correspondence between the Commandant of the Pensacola Navy Yard and captains of ships, officials at other navy yards, and government officials.
Letter from Reverend Philip Slaughter to Daniel F. Slaughter, 1832(?)
Three page ALS dated January 6, 1832, addressed from Philip Clayton Slaughter (1808-1890), later Reverend, son of Capt. Philip Pendleton Slaughter (1758-1849) to his brother, Senator Daniel French Slaughter (1779-1882) . He mentions his father and many individuals in Richmond, Culpepper and...
California Women's Suffrage
The Women's Suffrage movement in California was a significant and hard-fought campaign that ultimately led to women gaining the right to vote in the state on October 10, 1911. This victory made California the sixth state in the United States to grant women equal suffrage, a full nine years...
The Stabler Family
Letters, diaries, scrapbooks and more associated with the Stabler family of Sandy Spring.
J. P. Weethee journal, 1872-1882
The J.P. Weethee journal includes corresponce related to mineral land purchases for General Thomas Ewing and documents Weethee's life during this time period and his interactions with Ewing. The journal is one bound volume. It was likely bound while Weethee used it because there is writing on...
Mexican-American War
The Mexican-American War (1846-1848) is a pivotal event in the histories of both Mexico and the United States. This conflict not only reshaped the borders of North America but also set the stage for future relations between the two nations. The war was sparked by the U.S. annexation of Texas in...
Margaret Donaldson Letter Collection
Various Letters found in our Duncan-Goff scrapbook collection.
The Thomas & Place Family Collection
Various diaries, notebooks, correspondence from the Place and Thomas collections acquired from a family estate sale. Most of the items belonged to Mabel Thomas, a teacher who was working in New York State. She had an interest in teaching students who struggled to learn in a traditional setting....
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.
Welch & Harriss Family Papers
Deeds, legal papers, and receipts related to the Welch and Harriss families.
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.
Fisher Family Collection
Letters and other documents written by members of the Fisher Family in the 19th & early 20th centuries.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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
Covington Family Collection
A small collection of documents related to George A. Covington and his family.
High Point Property Records
Property deeds and legal and financial papers related to High Point residents and businesses.
Walter Deane papers
Walter Deane (1848-1930) engaged in a number of botanical activities during his lifetime, including serving as a founding member of the New England Botanical Club. He served on several botanical visiting committees for Harvard University. Deane helped on several floras including Maria Owen's “A...
Asa Gray Correspondence files of the Gray Herbarium
This collection, approximately 1820-1904, includes the personal correspondence of Asa Gray and Sereno Watson, official correspondence of other Herbarium staff, and a small amount of correspondence of noted botanists who were not affiliated with Harvard. Gray correspondence contains letters...
Jewell H. Spears WWII Collection
Letters between Sgt. Jewell Spears and his sister, Eva Spears Moorefield. Also includes official correspondence to Eva Moorefield as Jewell's next of kin. Jewell was killed at Iwo Jima on February 28, 1945.
Woodruff New Documents
The mission of the Wilford Woodruff Papers Foundation is to collect, transcribe, publish, and digitally preserve Wilford Woodruff's records. These document sets on FromThePage.com represent a very small portion of Wilford Woodruff's Papers. As these documents are transcribed, completed...
Idol Family Collection
Deeds, letters, and church records related to the Idol family of High Point, NC.
Highland Cotton Mill Collection
Letters and remembrances from residents of Highland Mill Village.
TRANSCRIPTION EXAMPLES
This set contains examples of transcriptions. Some of the letters are in Suetterlin. Others are not. You can find an image of the Suetterlin alphabet here: http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Lese/Alphabet.htm Pay attention to the differences between: "A" and "O" "e", "m", "n" "L" and...
Bobbi Martin Collection
Columns written by journalist Bobbi Martin for the High Point Enterprise.