todaysdocument:

Announcing the National Archives Transcription Pilot Project! 

You can help the National Archives make historical documents more accessible by contributing to transcriptions!

Transcriptions help in searching for the document as well as in reading and understanding the document. The work you do transcribing a handwritten or typed document will help the next person discover and use that record.

Available documents include letters to a civil war spy, presidential records, suffrage petitions, and fugitive slave case files, and today’s featured document - the Credentials of Hiram Rhodes Revels. 

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teddy and the sluttier home.

curiositycounts:

The spirit photographs of William Hope – portraits of “ghosts” from the early 1900s. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle might have a thing or two to say about those.

vogue:

NOSTALGIA: The 1916 December Vogue Cover Illustrated by Helen Dryden

(via npr)

nypl:

“I iz Santa Claws.”

Here’s a festive Caturday for you, courtesy of our Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection. We thought this 1914 photo - entitled “Xmas Shopper” - was appropriate for Christmas Eve. It also just may be the funniest photo we’ve ever posted. Happy Caturday and happy holidays! By the way, NYPL is closed today, tomorrow and Monday for the holidays, but you can still download our eBooks!

what.

best tumblr, maybe ever.

(via publichistorianryangosling)

happy thanksgiving!