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Smithsonian Transcribe-a-thon

Date: Oct 29, 2020 at 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Join a transcribe-a-thon with your bros! Transcribe important documents for the Smithsonian like playbills, research, and personal journals. This week's focus will be the Knabenshue Collection. "The A. Roy Knabenshue Collection contains approximately three and a half cubic feet of material relating to the life and career of a daring aeronaut and the United States' first successful dirigible pilot. The collection includes correspondence, photographic material, drawings of aircraft, and flight records. The material spans over seventy years, from the end of the nineteenth century to the nineteen-sixties." Instructions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mhNKPdegpHFXOIXjlXQOeTJJ30bRbskN2g9I_JscZQA/edit?usp=sharing Zoom link: see event coordinator! Website: https://transcription.si.edu/project/19958 EVENT COORDINATOR: Please create a zoom link and send it to attendees via the groupme and facebook. You will be hosting the zoom meeting. Let Nathalie know if anyone stays later/ leaves earlier/is a no-show so hours can be awarded accordingly. ***MINIMUM OF THREE PEOPLE AT THIS EVENT***