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2024 Transcribe-a-versary | 10 Years of Making HistorySaturday, September 28 | 10am - 2pm
Library of Virginia - Conference Rooms
This is a free event. Registration is required at https://www.cfengage.org/opportunity/a0C5c00000KtX6wEAF/making-history-with-lva-in-person
Limited free parking is available in the deck underneath the Library building.
Celebrate 10 years of Making History, our crowdsourcing program, at our annual Transcribe-a-versary! This community-building party with lunch and birthday cake features a transcribe-a-thon, with training for new volunteers to transcribe historical documents, as well as presentations from guest speakers and archivists.
Explore the “History of Handwriting” and how the shape of our letters has shaped our history. Items on display will include historical copybooks with examples of good penmanship in specific styles from the Library’s Special Collections.
Visit hands-on stations to better understand the “Tech of Text” by testing different communication methods through time, from pen and ink and letterpress to typewriter and computer. Josef Beery of the Virginia Center for the Book will demonstrate letterpress printing and hand-setting movable type on a desktop-size replica of an 18th-century wooden hand press known as the BookBeetle. Participants can set their own pangram (a sentence or phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet) to print as a keepsake.
Guest speakers will include archivists from our longest-running crowdsourcing collection, Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative, and our largest collection, the World War II Separation Notices. Calligrapher Z. Ingram will share an overview of Handwriting in the United States, focusing on documents transcribed by our volunteers.
Contact Sonya Coleman for more information at [email protected] or call HandsOn Greater Richmond at 804-330-7400.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23219
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