First, tell us about your documents. The Minker Collection is a set of 654 letters exchanged by five members of one family during WWII: Lee Minker, a young B-17 pilot, his mom, dad, and two teenage sisters. Lee wrote each of them separately, and their letters give different perspectives of life during the war. The correspondence spans pilot training in 1943-44 and … [Read more...] about An Interview with Sandra O'Connell
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An Interview with Alyssa Ollier of the Kentucky Historical Society
Alyssa Ollier of the Kentucky Historical Society kindly took the time to answer questions from Sara Brumfield of FromThePage, and discussed their project and experience using the platform. Alyssa Ollier is the Digital Archivist at the Kentucky Historical Society. First, tell us about your documents. The Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) has used FromThePage … [Read more...] about An Interview with Alyssa Ollier of the Kentucky Historical Society
An Interview with Molly Kerr of History Revealed
Molly Kerr, the Founding Director of History Revealed, Inc., a non-profit, historical research organization, kindly spoke with Sara Brumfield about their experience using FromThePage. First, tell us about your documents. The Shopping Stories project focuses on store ledgers from the 18th century. Our first phase transcribed the John Glassford & Company store ledgers from … [Read more...] about An Interview with Molly Kerr of History Revealed
An Interview With Julia Gearhart of Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology
Julia Gearhart, Director of the Visual Resources Collection of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, kindly spoke with Sara Brumfield about their experience using FromThePage. First, tell us about your documents. Our first project involved correcting OCR from typed excavation reports from the 1930s, of excavations of Antioch-on-the-Orontes. We now … [Read more...] about An Interview With Julia Gearhart of Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology
An Archivist's Tale Podcast - The Power of These Primary Sources to Bring Meaning
Back in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, Ben and Sara Brumfield sat with Karen Trivette and Geof Huth, husband and wife, and partners who run the podcast An Archivist's Tale. In this podcast, Ben and Sara discuss the origin story of FromThePage, their own backgrounds leading up to working in transcription software, motivations for the work they do, notable FromThePage … [Read more...] about An Archivist's Tale Podcast - The Power of These Primary Sources to Bring Meaning