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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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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...

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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...

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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...

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Cas Opis

Čas Opis je zošitový denník Júliusa Kollera z roku 1989 mapujúci každodenné udalosti a myšlienky najmä v súvislosti s odvíjajúcou sa Nežnou revolúciou. Koller tu svojim grafomanským prístupom buduje mozaiku televíznych a rozhlasových správ, počasia, vlastných názorov a rôznych detailov svetového...

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Čas Opis – Október 1989

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Čas Opis – November 1989

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Čas Opis – December 1989

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Čas Opis – September 1989

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Čas Opis – August 1989

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Mutual Improvement Association Minutes

The Mutual Improvement Association is a women's organization founded in Sandy Spring, Maryland in 1857 and is among the oldest, continually meeting groups of its kind in the United States. The original group was comprised of Quakers and thus meetings are modeled, in part, on a Quaker Meeting...

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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....

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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...

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Colonial North America: Harvard University Archives

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...

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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/.

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Kingston records (regionally related)

Records out of the City of Kingston archival collection, or from private donors, that are regionally related to the Kingston geographic area by association of provenance, topic or event.

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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...

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Sydney Female Refuge Society records

In 1848 the Sydney Female Refuge Society was established to provide a home for women escaping from prostitution and for young unmarried girls who fell pregnant. This collection includes the digitised pages of three 'minute books' from the Society records. The refuge was established on 21...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Chinese American Citizens Alliance

The Chinese American Citizens Alliance is an organization founded in 1895 in San Francisco, California to work for civil rights of Chinese Americans and improve the welfare of the community. The records here are early membership applications from the Oakland branch and will serve as a pilot...

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Archivo Digital Etnográfico Atitlán

varios documentos relacionados a la historia del pueblo y área de Santiago Atitlán incluye: A1.20.Leg.1170 Folio 304 Mayorazgo de Sancho de Barahona

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Horticultural Society

The Horticultural Society is an organization in Sandy Spring, Maryland that has met continuously since February 28, 1863! Read about the decisions, members, and happenings of the Society. This collection includes both typewritten and handwritten documents. When formed, the society was seen as...

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William D. Valentine Diary

William D. Valentine was born in Hertford County, N.C. in 1806. He contracted a debilitating disease at the age of 13 that left him permanently disabled. After a brief stint as a grammar-school teacher in 1837, he became a lawyer, practicing in the courts of Hertford, Bertie, Gates, and...

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Selections from Woman's Club of Tallahassee (N2021-4)

These records are a selection from State Archives of Florida collection N2021-4, documenting the organization, administration and activities of the Woman's Club of Tallahassee from 1927 to 2012. The collection includes administrative binders, meeting minutes, correspondence, annual reports,...

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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...

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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...

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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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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...

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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...

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Utsända och återkomna listor – Namninsamlingen för kvinnors politiska rösträtt 1913–1914

Kompletterande transkriberingsprojekt till I demokratins namn – Kvinnorna som krävde rösträtt. Materialet består av förteckningar över mottagare till namninsamlingslistor 1913-1914. Det förvaras i original av Riksarkivet i Stockholm och är del av Landsförening för kvinnans politiska...

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Philomathesian Society of Middlebury College

The Philomathesian Society was a debate society founded at Middlebury College that became a staple of college life in the early part of the 19th century. While the exact date of the organization’s founding is unknown, it began meeting sometime during the 1802-1803 school year and thrived...

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Register över listbärare i Stockholm 1913

Kompletterande transkriberingsprojekt till I demokratins namn – Kvinnorna som krävde rösträtt. Materialet består av register över listbärare till namninsamlingslistor 1913–1914. Det förvaras i original av Riksarkivet i Stockholm och är del av Landsförening för kvinnans politiska rösträtts...

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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'....

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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...

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Ellen Stabler Diaries

Born in 1834, Ellen wrote her first diary in 1852 and continued for a majority of her life until 1922. While Ellen never married or had any children, her diaries reveal that she was an active member of the Sandy Spring community, volunteering for several local organizations throughout her life....

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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...

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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...

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Elizabeth Frances Perry Diary

The collection consists of the diary of Perry, containing scattered entries, some reflecting on her earlier life, including details of family and social life in Greenville, S.C. The diary includes a four-page "Preface" by Perry's husband, Benjamin Franklin Perry (1805–1886).

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Pleasantville community images

Images collected by members of the Pleasantville community, and preserved 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.

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Pacific Grove Retreat Association

The Pacific Grove Retreat Association Minute Book documents the founding meetings, beginning July, 1875, of the Methodist Ministers and prominent lay persons who met at San Francisco’s Howard Avenue Methodist Church to form a coastal Retreat Association known today as Pacific Grove, California. ...

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Life as a Quaker Family: The Brookes

Welcome! Introduction to the Brooke Family The Brooke Family were landowners and members of the Quaker community in Sandy Spring, Maryland. Their family was made up of Robert (father), Mary (mother), and their ten children. When they first...

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Newdigate family collection of newsletters

This collection largely comprises English manuscript newsletters, dating from 1674 to 1715, received and compiled by the Newdigate family of Arbury Hall in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. The letters cover a diverse range of topics but are mainly concerned with contemporary domestic and Continental...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Mary Ruth Slaton diaries

The diaries of Mary Ruth Slaton, a housewife and mother from in Hopkins County, Kentucky, dated 1931-1973. Slaton begins writing her diary during the Great Depression in the early 1930s. She describes going to school, spending time with friends and doing chores. By the late 1930s she has...

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Enterprise Farmers' Club Minutes

The Enterprise Farmers’ Club is an agricultural association in Sandy Spring, Maryland that has met continuously since its formation in 1865. The group meets to discuss and exchange thoughts and information related to agricultural practices and the business of farming. The meeting agendas have...

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Home Interest Society Minutes

Home Interest, which refers to itself as a “Society,” was founded in Sandy Spring, Maryland, on August 27th, 1870 and has met monthly (more or less) to the present day. Early in its existence, meetings were not held in June and July to free up members to attend to agricultural and...

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Mauritius BM Project

The Bois Marchand Cemetery was established in 1867, due to the malaria epidemic. The land was donated by the Marchand family. The Archive consists of Burial Registers (BR) and Graves Purchased Books (GPB), in the form of bound printed forms. They were written in English and on a daily basis from...

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Sabato Morais Collection

Sabato Morais (Hebrew: שבתאי מוראיס; April 13, 1823 – November 11, 1897) was an Italian-American rabbi of Portuguese descent, leader of Mikveh Israel Synagogue in Philadelphia, pioneer of Italian Jewish Studies in America, and founder of the Jewish Theological Seminary, which initially acted as...

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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...

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Miller Family Collection

This collection includes the papers of longtime Sandy Spring residents, the Miller family. Originally from Alexandria, Virginia, the Miller Family would later move to Sandy Spring in the mid 19th century and become established members of the community. During their time in Sandy Spring, Henry H....

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Boyds Store Daybook, Boyds Md.

This ledger belongs to the Boyds Historical Society and appears in Sandy Spring Museum's collection in partnership between the two organizations. Both are located in Montgomery County, Maryland

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Voyages, Adventures and Situation of the French Emigrants, translated by A Lady

This work contains information about French Emigrants to America over the years 1789-1799, and provides a history of the French Revolution. The work was originally in French, and was translated into English by an anonymous translator using the pen name, "A Lady." Published in 1800 in...

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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...

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Latin

Works containing Latin content that can be translated into English.

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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...

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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...

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