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Valentine’s Day Plans? How about Transcribing Historic Pamphlets for Douglass Day!

Posted by: Patrick Hastings

The Rare Book and Special Collections Division will partner with the Library's "By the People" crowdsource transcription project and Pennsylvania State University's Douglass Day initiative to transcribe the contents of the African American Perspectives Collection. Read on to learn more about Douglass Day, transcription, and other efforts to preserve and share the collection assembled by Daniel Murray, a legendary figure in the history of the Library of Congress.