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Software, E-Resource Transcription dataset from the William A. Gladstone Afro-American military collection, Manuscript Division By the People transcription campaign title : Brothers in arms : the Gladstone Afro-American military collection

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Title

  • Transcription dataset from the William A. Gladstone Afro-American military collection, Manuscript Division

Other Title

  • By the People transcription campaign title : Brothers in arms : the Gladstone Afro-American military collection

Summary

  • This dataset is an export of transcriptions for 3,097 images from the William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign Brothers in Arms: The Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection. It contains text created by volunteers through a transcription and review process, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia.
  • The dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign Brothers in Arms: The Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection (https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/gladstone/). The campaign consisted of all then-available online images of digitized content from the William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000062) transcribed in their entirety. The collection documents African Americans in military service, especially the United States Corps d'Afrique and the United States Colored Troops. It spans the years 1773 to 1987, with the bulk of the material dating from the Civil War period, 1861-1865. The collection consists of correspondence, pay vouchers, orders, muster rolls, enlistment and discharge papers, receipts, contracts, affidavits, tax records, and other miscellaneous military documents and printed matter. See the William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection digital collection (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000062) for all available online items for this collection, as well as contextual information, such as a timeline and bibliographic resources.
  • This dataset incudes: 2021387727.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file - gladstone_2023-01-20.csv - a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags. This .CSV is the direct export of the Brothers in Arms: The Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection campaign.

Names

  • Gladstone, William A., collector
  • By the People (Program), compiler

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : By the People, Library of Congress, 2022.

Headings

  • -  United States.--Colored Troops
  • -  United States.--Continental Army--African American troops
  • -  United States.--Corps d'Afrique
  • -  Slavery
  • -  United States--Armed Forces--African Americans
  • -  United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Participation, African American
  • -  United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, African American

Genre

  • Data sets

Notes

  • -  "Dataset created 2023-01-20."--README file.
  • -  Title from README file.

Medium

  • 1 online resource (dataset)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E185.63

Repository

  • s-Online Electronic Resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021387727

Online Format

  • compressed data

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Digital Collections Management and Services Division

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Chicago citation style:

Gladstone, William A., Collector. Transcription dataset from the William A. Gladstone Afro-American military collection, Manuscript Division. composeds by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2022. Software, E-Resource. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021387727/.

APA citation style:

Gladstone, W. A. (2022) Transcription dataset from the William A. Gladstone Afro-American military collection, Manuscript Division. By The People Iler, comp Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021387727/.

MLA citation style:

Gladstone, William A., Collector. Transcription dataset from the William A. Gladstone Afro-American military collection, Manuscript Division. comp by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2022. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021387727/>.