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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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Paul Clifford Domke and John R. Caton Photographs from China, 1936-1939
Two Carleton representatives, Paul Cliff Domke and Jack R. Caton, who participated in Carleton-in-China Program, taught at Ming I Middle School located in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, during the years of 1936 to 1939. Both Carleton alumni retreated with the students and faulty to a few 'safe'...
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.
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...
Sally Hemings Underground Newsletter
In May 1970, in response to the shooting of four unarmed students at Kent State University by National Guardsmen, about 1,000 UVA students engaged in several days’ worth of rallies and marches on the Lawn and on Grounds. They joined students across the country in protesting expansion of the...
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...
Book Traces: Civil War Era Readers and Their Books in Virginia Libraries
The page images in this collection are from pre-1871 books owned by college and university libraries all around Virginia. Please help us by transcribing any handwritten annotations you find on the pages! We are interested in the "traces" that past readers of these books have left behind in the...
UNC Papers
The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at...
Fred Dudley Swindell Diary
Fred Dudley Swindell was born 2 March 1882 in Kingston, N.C., to Frederick Dallas (b. 1846) and Sue Decater Swindell. His brother, Charles LeRoy Swindell, was born on 1 December 1884, in Wadesboro, N.C. Charles attended the University of North Carolina in the early 1900s and became a physician...
University of Nevada Summer School Diaries 1912-1914
In the summer of 2020, the University of Nevada Reno conducted its first summer session off campus, with remote teaching, due to the coronavirus pandemic. 108 years earlier, in 1912, the university held its very first summer session, on campus, but with abundant extra-curricular excursions to...
University Records
Contains the records of Queen's University at Kingston, including Senate minutes, Board of Trustee minutes, University letters and records of various student associations and clubs.
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...
Kentucky Educator Resources
These works will be used in resources for educators produced by the Kentucky Historical Society. For more information on resources for educators please visit https://history.ky.gov/for-educators/.
O. G. Libby
Orin Grant Libby was born June 9, 1864, on a farm near Hammond, Wisconsin. He attended the River Falls State Normal School and graduated in 1886. He received his undergraduate degree in 1892, his master's degree in 1893, and his Ph.D. in 1895, all from the University of Wisconsin. Libby was an...
In Cap and Gown student journal
Issues of journal started by the Western University Literary Society that eventually becomes student newspaper, the University of Western Ontario Gazette.
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
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...
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...
Early Irish Hands TranSCRIPTion Challenge
Practice transcribing medieval Irish scripts! The Early Irish Hands TranSCRIPTion Challenge project helps you learn how to read early medieval Irish manuscripts by focusing on practice. It offers anyone interested a chance to get familiar with Irish script by offering simple introductions...
Walter Alexander's Herbarium and plant analysis notebook
Assembled in 1897 by African American high school student, Walter Alexander (1880-1910) of Ironton, Ohio. Alexander created the notebook when he was around 17 years old while attending Kingsbury Public High School. It features mounted plant specimens, pen-and-ink sketches of botanical details,...
Teaching Paleography 2022
This is a temporary collection for participants of the Folger Institute's Teaching Paleography course to play around with.
World War II at Punahou
It was at 1:10 a.m. on December 8, 1941 that Punahou's war-time fate was decided. Trucks of the Corps of Engineers rolled up to the main gate and Mr. Berger, guard in the vicinity, was informed that the Engineers were taking over the school equipment. Unlike other schools in Hawai‘i,...
STA 201
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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...
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...
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Library
The McLean Library and Archives was founded in 1828, one year after the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society was formed. It is a small research library consisting of collections on horticulture, gardening, urban greening and related information. Its archives document PHS’s nearly 200-year...
Academic Texts on Friendship
This collection contains academic writings on the subject of friendship from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Thse writings include, for now, mainly dissertations and disputations based on Aristotle's discussion in 'Nicomachean Ethics' VIII and IX as well as Cicero's dialogue 'Laelius'....
Wisconsin Citizen Petitions, 1836-1891
This collection comprises citizen petitions written to the legislatures of the Wisconsin Territory and later the State of Wisconsin, from 1836 to 1891. At the time, petitions were the only direct means for citizens to communicate with the government. From requesting dams, roads, and money to...
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.
Thomas Brevard Notebook
Thomas Brevard was a teacher of North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky. His notebook contains a diary, 1804 and 1830, accounts, poems, and other writings of Brevard; and minutes of the Union Library Society, Lebanon, Tenn., 1817-1824, and of the Philalethian Debating Society,...
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...
Sanitary medicine, exercise folio
This notebook contains an unidentified student's handwritten notes of Professor Daniel Elmer Salmon's first lectures at the newly established National Veterinary College in Washington, D.C. The notes extend from October 25, 1892 to March 10, 1893 and indicate that he gave one to three lectures...
David Kimball Diary, 1803-1804
A journal kept by noted Ipswich, Massachusetts minister David T. Kimball during his final year of studies at Harvard University and Harvard Divinity School, and a year of teaching at Phillips Academy when he studied divinity under the Rev. Jonathan French. Rev. David Tenney Kimball...
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.
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...
Colonial North America: Monroe C. Gutman 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...
Colonial North America: Countway Library of Medicine
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...
Ohio University Board of Trustees Minutes
Meeting minutes document the activities of Ohio University's Board of Trustees, beginning with its 1804 founding. Transcription of these enables full text searching of the volumes for endeavors such as tracing the history of the institution and the region. See the volumes covering 1804-1954...
Indiana State Teachers Association Register
Founded on December 25, 1854, to further the cause of public and free education in Indiana, the Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) played an active and critical role in the development of modern public education within the state. Open to educators and the general public alike, the ISTA...
UNC System Board of Trustees
With the creation in 1932 of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, which included the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina State College in Raleigh, and Woman's College in Greensboro, the North Carolina General Assembly appointed a new hundred-member Board of...
Celestia Rice and June Rose Colby Collection
Two remarkable women serve as the nexus for this digital collection. The first, Celestia Rice Colby, was born to a well-to-do Ohio farming family in 1827. She became one of the first girls to be schooled at the prestigious Grand River Institute and parlayed the knowledge she gained there into a...
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...
Illinois State Normal University financial ledger, 1857-1899
This remarkable ledger records the earliest expenditures of the fledgling Illinois State Normal University, including the purchase of desks, chalkboards, and books for the library, as well as such mundanities as the cost of digging a privy for the first building on campus ($18) and the number of...
African American Education
Collection Status: Open for Transcription Transcription Difficulty Rating: Easy About the Collection This collection contains documents and photographs related to African American education in North Carolina before 1950, drawn from the collections of the Charlotte Hawkins Brown...
Handwritten Text Recognition Sandbox
What is this? This is a “playground” to explore how different handwritten text recognition models work with different types of documents. Using FromThePage’s “AI-Assist” feature you can get an overlay of the machine generated text over each page image, making it easy to see where...
Penn School Papers
The Penn School on Saint Helena Island, S.C., was founded during the Civil War by northern philanthropists and white missionaries for former enslaved individuals in an area occupied by the United States Army. Over the years, with continuing philanthropic support, it served as school, health...
Everett Skillings journals
Journals kept by Everett Skillings, Middlebury College Professor of German. Skillings served as Professor of German from 1909 to 1921 and from 1923 to 1943. He served as Professor of English Literature at Middlebury in 1922.
Girls' School Registers
This project is for the Christ Church Girls' School from 1925-1948. The goal is to digitise the records in order that those students who are still alive, as well as other students' descendants, can find information on their family members. These transcriptions will be taken and presented with...
Mary Magruder Collection
This collection includes documents from Sandy Spring resident Mary Magruder. Born in Brookeville in 1865, Mary would spend the entire 80 years of her life as an active member of the Sandy Spring community. First serving as a teacher, she would later become the county’s first school attendance...
Manuel Fetter Account Book
Manual Fetter was a professor of Greek at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. The collection is an account book containing a record of personal and household expenses, 1841-1844, kept by Manuel Fetter while he was a professor of Greek at the University of North Carolina, Chapel...
James B. Stockdale papers
ADM James Bond Stockdale had a profound impact on the U.S. Naval War College through his leadership, philosophical contributions, and his influence on the curriculum focusing on ethics and philosophy. Stockdale is best remembered for his exemplary courage and leadership during the Vietnam...
Tables in Portland Colored Evening School (Louisville, Ky.) register, 1909-1915
Pages 7-30 of the Register of the Portland Colored Evening School (Portland neighborhood, Louisville, Kentucky) for 1909-1915. Records name, age, place of residence, occupation, enrollment and/or transfer dates, and vaccination. Only a representative sample of blank pages were scanned. Henrietta...
Talmud Torah of Minneapolis records
These registration ledgers come from Talmud Torah in Minneapolis. Talmud Torah acted as the religious school in the Jewish community, teaching young students Hebrew and about their religious heritage and customs. Located in the North Side neighborhood of Minneapolis, where many Jewish families...
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...
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.
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...
Jacksonville Public Library Digital Special Collections
Typewritten and handwritten meeting minutes, ordinances, and resolutions of the City Council of Jacksonville; collections of source material related to African American life in Northeast Florida including photographs, personal papers, scrapbooks, yearbooks, pamphlets, and gray literature related...
Student Organizations
Meeting minutes, financial records, membership lists, libraries of student clubs. Thanks to Tam Gavenas, class of 2025, for scanning these in June 2023.
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...
Katherine Pettit Diary c.1899
The diary (ca. 1899) of Katherine Pettit, details her settlement work for the Kentucky Confederation of Women's Clubs, made yearly trips to Hazard during this period and was a central figure in establishing the Hindman (Kentucky) Settlement School in 1902. Activities described here include...
Sterling High School Yearbooks
Collection of yearbooks from Sterling High School--an African American school started in 1896 and closed when local schools were integrated in 1970
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....
The Domesday Book of Queen's University
The Domesday Book of Queen's University was established by Queen's Trustees in 1887, at the suggestion of Chancellor Sanford Fleming, to record the names of the university's benefactors and the main events in its history, which were to be written into the book every year. The book was kept up to...
Queen’s University Senate Minutes
The Senate is one of the university's two primary governing bodies and dates back to the beginnings of the University; it was described in the university's Royal Charter of 1841, which willed that the "Principal and all the Professors of the said College shall forever constitute the College...
Schaffhausen Adomnán Challenge
Practice transcribing medieval Irish script! Practice your transcription skills by transcribing the Life of Columba (Colum Cille) from the famous Schaffhausen manuscript, which was written by Dorbbéne in Iona around the year 700. This manuscript is not only a unique early witness to the...
New Content
Help the Julian Bond Papers Project Transcribe New Content! We've started launching new materials starting in the summer of 2022, and it will be available here, at https://fromthepage.com/centerfordigitalediting/bond-papers-new-content. See also our updated transcription guidance (please no...
Dartmouth Medical School Student Notebooks
Help transcribe Dartmouth Medical School history! The Dartmouth Medical School was founded in 1797 by Nathan Smith who, in 1796, petitioned the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College for permission to travel to Edinburgh, Scotland to "attend to the several branches of medicine as taught &...