Browse Projects
Charles Lang Freer Papers, Art vouchers, 1906-1907
Charles Lang Freer's vouchers for art purchases in 1906 and 1907.
Browse projects by Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Charles Lang Freer Papers, Correspondence: Pang, Yuan-chi (Pang Yuanji; 龐元濟), 1912-1919
Correspondence between Charles Lang Freer and Pang, Yuan-chi (Pang Yuanji; 龐元濟).
Browse projects by Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Charles Lang Freer Papers, Correspondence: Rathbun, Richard, 1906-1919
Correspondence between Charles Lang Freer and Richard Rathbun.
Browse projects by Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Charles Lang Freer Papers, Correspondence: Rice, Richard A., 1889-1917
Correspondence between Charles Lang Freer and Richard A. Rice.
Browse projects by Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Charles Lang Freer Papers, Letterpress book. Volume 26, 1908 December 3 - 1909 March 10
Charles Lang Freer and his household employees used letterpress printing to create duplicate copies of outgoing correspondence from his Detroit home, between 1892 and 1910. These copies were subsequently bound in 30 volumes, their contents organized chronologically.
Browse projects by Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
District of Columbia Education, School Reports, Monthly Reports of the Superintendent of Education, Oct. 1865–June 1870
The Bureau of Refugees, Freemen, and Abandoned Lands, often referred to as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established on March 3, 1865. The duties of the Freedmen’s Bureau included supervision of all affairs relating to refugees, freedmen, and the custody of abandoned lands and property. These documents come from the Records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, Series 7: School Reports . Please help us transcribe these records to learn more about the experiences of formerly enslaved men and women during the Reconstruction Era. Have questions about how to transcribe tables in these documents? View special directions here.
District of Columbia Education, School Reports, Monthly Teachers' Reports, Oct, 1865–Apr. 1866, Part 1
The Bureau of Refugees, Freemen, and Abandoned Lands, often referred to as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established on March 3, 1865. The duties of the Freedmen’s Bureau included supervision of all affairs relating to refugees, freedmen, and the custody of abandoned lands and property. These documents come from the Records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, Series 7: School Reports . Please help us transcribe these records to learn more about the experiences of formerly enslaved men and women during the Reconstruction Era. Have questions about how to transcribe tables in these documents? View special directions here.
District of Columbia Education, School Reports, Monthly Teachers' Reports, Oct, 1865–Apr. 1866, Part 2
The Bureau of Refugees, Freemen, and Abandoned Lands, often referred to as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was established on March 3, 1865. The duties of the Freedmen’s Bureau included supervision of all affairs relating to refugees, freedmen, and the custody of abandoned lands and property. These documents come from the Records of the Superintendent of Education for the District of Columbia, Series 7: School Reports . Please help us transcribe these records to learn more about the experiences of formerly enslaved men and women during the Reconstruction Era. Have questions about how to transcribe tables in these documents? View special directions here.
Face-to-Face: Joshua A. Norton
As part of the National Portrait Gallery's education program "Face-to-Face," Maya Foo, researcher at NPG, discusses Joshua A. Norton. After going bankrupt in 1858 owing to a failed attempt to control a commodities market in San Francisco, Joshua A. Norton proclaimed himself "His Imperial Majesty Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico."Despite having lost his mental equilibrium, Norton enjoyed a twenty-two-year "reign," during which he used his celebrity status to trumpet San Francisco's virtues and to recommend improvements. Local newspapers published his "decrees," which included a proposal--far-fetched in its day--to build a suspension bridge between Oakland and San Francisco, thus connecting the East Bay to the city.As this photograph shows, Norton often wore a navy commodore's costume and a silk hat with feathers. Period publications described Norton as "the gentlest, most inoffensive, and most agreeable monomaniac that ever lived." It was reported that thirty thousand people attended his funeral, a testament to his extraordinary popularity. Mayo Foo, researcher at the National Portrait Gallery, discussed Joshua A. Norton at a Face-to-Face portrait talk. This circa 1870 portrait by Henry Bradley and William Rulofson is on view at the Portrait Gallery, in the exhibition "Faces of the Frontier: Photographic Portraits from the American West, 1845-1924," on the museum's second floor. Recorded at NPG October 8, 2009. Face-to-Face talk currently located on the National Portrait Gallery's iTunesU page. ["Norton I" by Henry Bradley & William Rulofson. EXH.FR.12]
Kathryn D. Sullivan Papers - Notebook, Space Shuttle operations, 1981
Kathryn D. Sullivan has had a distinguished career as a scientist, astronaut, and oceanographer. She was one of the first six women selected for the NASA astronaut corps, flew on three shuttle missions, and became the first American woman to walk in space as part of mission STS-41G. Sullivan’s post-NASA career included work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Central Ohio Science Institute, the Battelle Center for Mathematics and Science Education Policy at The Ohio State University, and service with the US Naval Reserve.
Browse projects by Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Archives
Lula Adams, 1993 June 22, Tape 1, Side 1
Please view the instructions for transcribing audio collections before beginning. Pearl Bowser (b. 1931) is a renowned African American film scholar, filmmaker, author, and film/conference programmer. She is widely recognized as an expert on the works of Oscar Micheaux, who is considered the first major African American filmmaker. Working as a researcher from the 1960s through the early 2000s, Bowser travelled the world interviewing actors, actresses, filmmakers, and scholars, including Lorenzo Tucker, Gordon Parks, Arthur Jafa, Edna Mae Harris, Toni Cade Bambara, and many others. As a programmer (1971-2012), she organized conferences and film festivals that focused on the rich, yet often obscure, history of African Americans in film. The audio in this project is from unique recordings of the interviews, conferences, and film festivals captured by Pearl Bowser. Some of the recordings may have lower quality and require close attention to understand the content, and some speakers may not be identified, or the recordings may not include the beginning of their remarks. If a speaker cannot be identified either by context in the recording or by notes from the project team, please list them as “unidentified speaker” in the transcription. Some of the recordings may contain sensitive or offensive language. For historical accuracy, our policy is to transcribe the language as it is presented in the recordings. See TC’s FAQ page for more information on transcribing sensitive language. All recordings are in the English language. The transcriptions created by TC volunteers will be used to make these unique and important recordings accessible to researchers, scholars, and the general public.
Browse projects by National Museum of African American History and Culture
Lula Adams, 1993 June 22, Tape 1, Side 2
Please view the instructions for transcribing audio collections before beginning. Pearl Bowser (b. 1931) is a renowned African American film scholar, filmmaker, author, and film/conference programmer. She is widely recognized as an expert on the works of Oscar Micheaux, who is considered the first major African American filmmaker. Working as a researcher from the 1960s through the early 2000s, Bowser travelled the world interviewing actors, actresses, filmmakers, and scholars, including Lorenzo Tucker, Gordon Parks, Arthur Jafa, Edna Mae Harris, Toni Cade Bambara, and many others. As a programmer (1971-2012), she organized conferences and film festivals that focused on the rich, yet often obscure, history of African Americans in film. The audio in this project is from unique recordings of the interviews, conferences, and film festivals captured by Pearl Bowser. Some of the recordings may have lower quality and require close attention to understand the content, and some speakers may not be identified, or the recordings may not include the beginning of their remarks. If a speaker cannot be identified either by context in the recording or by notes from the project team, please list them as “unidentified speaker” in the transcription. Some of the recordings may contain sensitive or offensive language. For historical accuracy, our policy is to transcribe the language as it is presented in the recordings. See TC’s FAQ page for more information on transcribing sensitive language. All recordings are in the English language. The transcriptions created by TC volunteers will be used to make these unique and important recordings accessible to researchers, scholars, and the general public.
Browse projects by National Museum of African American History and Culture