June 16, 2021 – The first big hurdle came with the selection of equipment for the project. To scan the letters quickly and efficiently, we needed a scanner. Our first choice was a portable, overhead scanner. The software, however, was lacking: it did not let us scan in .TIFF format, a lossless format for documents, […]
Category: Research
Entry 1: Hands-On History: Digitizing, Transcribing, and Curating the Letters of a Civil War Chaplain
June 4, 2021 – This Summer and into the Fall, I was funded by the Jefferson Trust flash funding grants to organize, scan, and transcribe the letters of Rev. John W. Alvord. Alvord was a significant historical figure best known for his Letters from the South, Relating to the Condition of Freedmen, Addressed to Major […]
Virginia Emigrants to Liberia
The summer of 2020 didn’t entirely go according to plan for anyone. With programs being widely canceled, I was worried that I wouldn’t have any project to work on for the summer. Luckily, I was offered a special summer stipend through the USOAR (Undergraduate Student Opportunities in Academic Research) program and was able to work […]
The Anne Spencer Project
I researched documents in the Papers of Anne Spencer and the Spencer Family, held in Special Collections at UVa, visited the historic home and garden of Anne Spencer in Lynchburg, VA, and translated that research to a digital format using online tools such as Timeline JS and ArcGIS StoryMaps. I then linked the life of […]
