Papers of the War Department

One of the projects I work on at RRCHNM is the Papers of the War Department. I’m fond of it because it was the only project I worked on my first year, it falls within my temporal period of study, and I’ve discovered some very entertaining letters which generating metadata and summaries for it. Lately I’ve been working on trying to increase the project’s visibility, especially as other crowdsourcing projects like the Smithsonian Transcription Center and projects out of NYPL Labs take off.

To that end, I wrote a guest post for the 18th Century Common which has, thus far, been very well received. Digging into the stories of Corbin, along with individuals like the Mrs. Greatons, Samuel Hodgdon, and Isaac Craig (who has lovely handwriting), has been one of the pleasures of working on the Papers project.