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More than 500 logbooks of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Ships (USC & GSS) are now available to view and download in the National Archives Catalog. The logbooks are found within the series Ships’ Records, 1846 – 1963, part of Record Group 23: Records of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1806 – 1981.
Information contained within these logbooks may be of interest to genealogists and historians, and should also serve as a rich source of historical weather data for climate scientists. A typical logbook contains daily entries of the ship’s position, the ship’s movements, weather conditions, and descriptions of the day’s surveying activities.
This logbook page shows hourly weather data recorded by USC&GSS Endeavor on June 12-13, 1888, at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
Image 32 from Log of USC&GSS Endeavor: 03/18/1888-10/27/1888. National Archives Identifier 247017740
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National Archives Catalog — Wrapping up 2022
U.S. Coast Guard. Alaska Patrol - Bering Sea Expedition
1948, Coast Guard Cutter Northwind.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/205573798
U.S. Coast Guard. Alaska Patrol - Bering Sea Expedition
1948, Coast Guard Cutter Northwind.
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/205573798
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2024
Happy Birthday Ellis Island!
Bending Toward Justice: Civil Rights in the Federal Courts
Celebrating Feats of Engineering
Celebrating Amazing American Women
75 Years of Alliance
Earth Day, 2024
Citizen Archivist “Outside the Box”
Mining the Catalog - Exploring records from the Exhibit Power & Light
Play Ball! America’s Pastime in the National Archives
Honoring the Military
Revolutionary War Pensions at One Year
Any of our volunteers will tell you that reading these original documents is challenging at times, even for people used to reading cursive. Handwriting was different in the early 19th century compared to what many of us learned in school. The “long s” is perhaps the most common letter that trips people up. The image below shows the word “Congress” with a long s followed by a more familiar short s.
Play Ball! America’s Pastime in the National Archives
Summer Vacation!
Keys to the Past - Typewriters in the Records of the Federal Government
In the federal government, the introduction of typewritten documents varies widely by agency and even by office, location, resources, and individual circumstances. By the late 1800s, following the introduction of commercially available typewriters, federal agencies began producing type written records.
Remembering the March on Washington
Going for the Gold
Celebrating Constitution Day
Good Neighbors
Clifford Berryman’s Political Cartoons
The National Archives Building in Washington, DC
Happy Birthday Ellis Island!
Bending Toward Justice: Civil Rights in the Federal Courts
Celebrating Feats of Engineering
Celebrating Amazing American Women
75 Years of Alliance
Earth Day, 2024
Citizen Archivist “Outside the Box”
Mining the Catalog - Exploring records from the Exhibit Power & Light
Play Ball! America’s Pastime in the National Archives
Honoring the Military
Revolutionary War Pensions at One Year
Any of our volunteers will tell you that reading these original documents is challenging at times, even for people used to reading cursive. Handwriting was different in the early 19th century compared to what many of us learned in school. The “long s” is perhaps the most common letter that trips people up. The image below shows the word “Congress” with a long s followed by a more familiar short s.
Play Ball! America’s Pastime in the National Archives
Summer Vacation!
Keys to the Past - Typewriters in the Records of the Federal Government
In the federal government, the introduction of typewritten documents varies widely by agency and even by office, location, resources, and individual circumstances. By the late 1800s, following the introduction of commercially available typewriters, federal agencies began producing type written records.
Remembering the March on Washington
Going for the Gold
Celebrating Constitution Day
Good Neighbors
Clifford Berryman’s Political Cartoons
The National Archives Building in Washington, DC
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From the Shelf to the Catalog
There is a link to a survey to tell them how much you like the reverse chronological order.
There is a link to a survey to tell them how much you like the reverse chronological order.
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Giving thanks for Citizen Archivists
If you’ve been reading our newsletter for a while or follow the National Archives on social media, you might have heard of our largest Citizen Archivist mission — the pension applications of Revolutionary War veterans. This mission is a special partnership with the National Park Service. We hope that unlocking these pensions will bring first hand accounts of the American Revolution to park visitors.
If you’ve been reading our newsletter for a while or follow the National Archives on social media, you might have heard of our largest Citizen Archivist mission — the pension applications of Revolutionary War veterans. This mission is a special partnership with the National Park Service. We hope that unlocking these pensions will bring first hand accounts of the American Revolution to park visitors.
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AI and the Revolutionary War Pension Files
We are excited to announce that through a partnership with FamilySearch, AI extracted text for all 2,322,137 pages of the Case Files of Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service, ca. 1800 - ca. 1912 is now available in the National Archives Catalog.
FamilySearch used 30,000 pages of pensions transcribed by our Citizen Archivists to teach their AI language model how to transcribe this 19th Century cursive writing. The Partner Contributed transcriptions generated by their AI language model for the entire series will now be available as Extracted Text in the National Archives Catalog.
We are excited to announce that through a partnership with FamilySearch, AI extracted text for all 2,322,137 pages of the Case Files of Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Applications Based on Revolutionary War Service, ca. 1800 - ca. 1912 is now available in the National Archives Catalog.
FamilySearch used 30,000 pages of pensions transcribed by our Citizen Archivists to teach their AI language model how to transcribe this 19th Century cursive writing. The Partner Contributed transcriptions generated by their AI language model for the entire series will now be available as Extracted Text in the National Archives Catalog.