Help Transcribe Our Archives
If you can read handwriting, you can transcribe. Help make historic archives from Middlebury’s Special Collections accessible to future generations. Over a thousand pages of manuscripts need you.
Sign up for a free account with the crowdsourcing transcription service , and start exploring .
Where should you start? How about listing scientific specimens collected by Middlebury’s Department of Geology? A by the antislavery activist James Redpath? What about serving on the frontlines? If those don’t tempt you, try correspondence from the or a letter by .
Happy transcribing.
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