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Alabama Education, School Reports, Monthly Reports of the District Superintendents, Jan. 1866–June 1870, Part 1
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, 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 Alabama, Series 8: School Reports.
Additional resources are available on the Freedmen's Bureau Instructions Page. Please help us transcribe these records to learn more about the lives of formerly enslaved men and women in Alabama during the Reconstruction Era.
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Alabama Education, School Reports, Monthly Reports of the District Superintendents, Jan. 1866–June 1870, Part 2
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, 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 Alabama, Series 8: School Reports.
Additional resources are available on the Freedmen's Bureau Instructions Page. Please help us transcribe these records to learn more about the lives of formerly enslaved men and women in Alabama during the Reconstruction Era.
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Alabama Education, School Reports, Monthly Reports of the Superintendent of Education, Feb. 1866–June 1870
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, 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 Alabama, Series 8: School Reports.
Additional resources are available on the Freedmen's Bureau Instructions Page. Please help us transcribe these records to learn more about the lives of formerly enslaved men and women in Alabama during the Reconstruction Era.
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Alabama Education, School Reports, Surveys of Educational Conditions in the Subdistricts, Mar. 1867–Nov. 1868
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, 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 Alabama, Series 8: School Reports. Additional resources are available on the Freedmen's Bureau Instructions Page. Please help us transcribe these records to learn more about the lives of formerly enslaved men and women in Alabama during the Reconstruction Era.
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Alabama Education, Special Orders Received, Nov. 6, 1865–Mar. 7, 1870
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, 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 Alabama, Series 7: Special Orders Received. Additional resources are available on the Freedmen's Bureau Instructions Page. Please help us transcribe these records to learn more about the lives of formerly enslaved men and women in Alabama during the Reconstruction Era.
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Albert Spear Hitchcock Field Notes
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Alberto Vargas diary
Pin-up illustrator Alberto Vargas's works circulated in Esquire magazine, then inspired World War II aircraft nose art. Transcribe his diary (1940-1944) to help us learn about his working relationship with Esquire magazine and its collapse.
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Album of Iranian Photographic Portraits
A family compiled album bound in gold embossed green leather and sold by Au Bon Marche, Paris. Seventy-six informal and studio individual portraits or groups by a variety of photographers from the 1860s to the 1940s or later. Subjects are likely family members, although formal portraits of royalty are also included. Formats range from large cabinet prints to cartes de visites, and are inserted into pockets rather than glued onto pages. Many of the prints have been cut down to fit into the cartes de visite pockets of the album. Most of the photographs have Persian language annotations written in pen or pencil.
Browse projects by Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
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Alexander C. Anderson - Western Union Telegraph Expedition report, 1865
Travel the path of the Western Union Telegraph Expedition with this 1865 trip report by explorer and fur-trader Alexander Caulfield Anderson. Anderson's report, filed "on the country between the Fraser R[iver] and Stuart Lake" in British Columbia, details part of the path taken by the historic expedition to explore building a trans-Pacific communication system through Alaska and Asia. His report from the beginning of the expedition, in 1865, describes a path to follow, with notes on the terrain, the types of trees available on the route, and distances between towns and other geographic landmarks. Help transcribe Anderson's expedition report and join in on an incredible scientific exploration! You can also read the 1865 account of a fellow Telegraph Expedition traveler, William Healey Dall, previously transcribed by volunpeers!
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Alexander Van Valen Diary, 1849-1850
Have you wondered what it was like to be part of the California Gold Rush? Go back to 1849 and join Alexander Van Valen where he starts off in New York, traveling by ship south down around the tip of South America and then north to San Francisco. You can be a part of this historic trip by helping us transcribe Van Valen's diary and follow his travels starting today.
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Alexander Wetmore - Album 1 Panama, 1954
Planning to travel when you retire? Where would you go? Forty-two years after starting his science career in ornithology and avian paleontology, Wetmore retired from his position as Secretary of the Smithsonian to more fully devote himself to the science he loved. This photograph album documents Alexander Wetmore's work in Panama in 1954, including visits to the Canal Zone Biological Area and specimen collecting in Chiriqui together with Beatrice Thielen Wetmore and others. Join other digital volunteers in transcribing the captions in this album and see a wide range of topics including shorelines, forests and vegetation, volcano vistas, Panamanian staff and families, lodgings, and modes of transportation used.
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Alexander Wetmore - Album 3 of Panama, 1958
Have you ever wanted to take a trip to the coasts and canals of Panama? See fascinating photographs from a 1958 collection expedition to Panama, taken by Alexander Wetmore, an ornithologist, curator, and the former Secretary of the Smithsonian. These vibrant images of the Panama environment and birds in the wild, among many others, offer a unique inside look into the specimen collection process as Wetmore experienced it. Experience the expedition and help us transcribe photo captions! Together, we can make the album a rich, visual resource for scholars and researchers!
