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We'd love your help in reviewing but we know it can be a challenge to get to the pages that need another pass. There are a few ways to find those pages. On the project page, you can FILTER to see only pages needing review. You can also use the orange "Start Reviewing" button to get going!
Find some yellow pages here and let us know what you’re discovering!
#OTD: 27 July 1919, Leo Baekeland sips a mint julep and reflects on "pirates" of the industry who have been compelled to "drop their inferior preparations". See more of Baekeland's journals, shared by the Archives Center at National Museum of American History in the Smithsonian's Collections Search Center.
A fresh set of (allergy-free!) Pollen Cards are ready for you. Dust off your transcription skills by checking in on the instructions.
Then get started with these quick cards, shared by Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
We're always looking for a few good eyes and editing skills to help us review transcribed pages. Review is one of the most important steps in the TC process; a green light from a reviewer signals that the text is ready to be indexed and can then be searched by keyword in Smithsonian Collections Search Center. Are you up for the challenge of revew? Join us here to find a project.
Tip: Scroll to find the projects and pages that are yellow!
It pays to keep a record successes (and even bills!) in one's garden. The Chimneys, the seaside summer ‘cottage’ of Boston financier Gardiner Martin Lane and his wife Emma, was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (son of the designer of New York’s Central Park and Chicago’s world’s fair) in 1902.
Smithsonian Gardens are giving you the chance to explore the record of this Manchester, Massachusetts Gilded Age era estate. It was featured in popular garden magazines and guidebooks well into the twentieth century and won many horticultural prizes including the prestigious Massachusetts Horticultural Society gold medal in 1935. Join in transcribing this project!
This summer, Smithsonian Gardens and @smithsonianlibraries are collaborating over Cultivating America's Gardens. Learn more with this online exhibition.
Sometimes you wanna go where everybody... is busy with transcription! See the latest activity in projects by using the "Latest" sort feature on the Browse Projects page. Try it for yourself and let us know what you think.
What secrets do these sketches by Harrison G. Dyar hold? Find out more about Dyar's Law and the modern research that is applying it during today's Facebook Live event with Smithsonian Institution Archives and the National Museum of Natural History - Department of Entomology.
Join us at noon today on the Smithsonian Institution Archives Facebook Page. In the meantime, help transcribe Dyar's field notes.
BRAND NEW PROJECTS: Two new projects from @nmaahc are up in the TC. They are editions of The Liberator (1831-1865) - the most widely circulated anti-slavery newspaper up to and through the Civil War. Listed within the pages are the names and efforts of abolitionists. Join in with this transcription challenge to learn more.
No need to go under the sea to explore Fossil Marine Invertebrates. The second set of our Paleobiology pilot project is live - Join in to and try a few!
When dad’s away on expedition, you might start a roll of potential ports of call - especially if he’s been everywhere, man!
Alvina Schmitt included drawings and notes from Barbara and Waldo, Jr. when corresponding with carcinologist Waldo L. Schmitt. Get a look at more and help Smithsonian Institution Archives transcribe these pieces of correspondence from Schmitt’s South American expeditions from 1925 to 1930.
Also! Can you help improve Waldo L. Schmitt’s Wikipedia article? The prose and infobox could use some elaboration!
With pages adorned with scrawling specialized observations, bird calls, and sometimes multiple checkmarks, you’ll find much to mull as you transcribe and review Moynihan's notes from mid-century Manitoba!
Shared as part of International Migratory Bird Day in May, these field notes track migratory patterns to the aptly named Pelican Island in 1954-1955. Help Smithsonian Institution Archives wrap up this project featuring the notes of Martin Moynihan, the founding director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
Four pages remain in Edmund Heller’s field notes and this particular one presents quite an overview of a day in the life of the expedition.
This set of field notes documents his expedition with @amnhnyc from 1916-1917. Heller worked as a naturalist on many Smithsonian-led expeditions throughout the 1900s, and joined the New York City museum’s trip to the Yunnan Province. Heller’s papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution Archives - including his notes from the Smithsonian Roosevelt African Expedition in 1910. Help review the final pages of this project so that researchers can benefit from keyword-searchable observations (be sure to log in first!).
We You did it! Thanks very much!
Who might want to try their hand at these elaborate swirls and equations - transcribe and review the final 6 pages of the E. Knight Arithmetic Manuscript shared by @smithsonianlibraries?
Hint: though this looks like a head scratcher, you can transcribe the equations as “equation” and describe the arrangement of text on the page
Four pages remain in Edmund Heller’s field notes and this particular one presents quite an overview of a day in the life of the expedition.
This set of field notes documents his expedition with @amnhnyc from 1916-1917. Heller worked as a naturalist on many Smithsonian-led expeditions throughout the 1900s, and joined the New York City museum’s trip to the Yunnan Province. Heller’s papers are held by the Smithsonian Institution Archives - including his notes from the Smithsonian Roosevelt African Expedition in 1910. Help review the final pages of this project so that researchers can benefit from keyword-searchable observations (be sure to log in first!).
The Freedmen's Bureau had responsibilities across the state of North Carolina. How far did they extend? Here are 14 locations alone that are mentioned across just 8 pages. Incidentally, these 8 pages are the final ones remaining for review in Endorsements Sent from the NC Assistant Commissioner from March to December 1868. Join @nmaahc to review and learn more about requests for decisions around establishing schools, transportation support and transfer, and care of minors in these pages.
It’s #CephalopodWeek! We couldn’t resist gathering some of Martin H. Moynihan’s sketches and observations to mark the occasion. You can explore his completed notes here.
And if you’re intrigued by his process, join Smithsonian Institution Archives to transcribe and review his notes on gulls in varying regions! There are three projects awaiting your help in the Field Book Project theme (scroll to bottom of page to explore).
DYK: Moynihan was the founding Director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute?
On #WorldGiraffeDay, we found giraffes in Peru and South Africa thanks to volunteers & transcription. Thanks for helping lay tracks for keyword searching in the following Smithsonian Institution Archives and Field Book Project field notes!
First up, a back bending bow captured by #WonderfulWetmore in 1957 (and a great pic of extended elegance on the next page, h/t @histsciart). Wetmore was in South Africa in July 1957, near Kruger National Park, when he encountered this giraffe.
Then, and backing up 40+ years, a visit to Lima's zoological park leaves Edmund Heller with an abundance of animals on his mind, including giraffe: https://transcription.si.edu/view/8558/SIA-SIA2016-010639
Now you can help Smithsonian Institution Archives uncover more details of Heller’s official research visit to China in 1917 - start transcribing here!
