I ended up having to work from home this week because of some pretty heavy snows, which ironically hit us right after the first official day of spring. I continued working on my finding aid for the Race and Segregation collection, formatting the citations and information on each piece in the collection. However, I’ll have to put that one on hold until I can get back to the collection and continue cataloguing it.
I spent the rest of the time working on transcribing documents as usual. I transcribed one cablegram laying out the terms of the naval armistice during the first World War. This document was poorly scanned (or photographed? I can’t tell actually) so it was really hard to make out in places. Many of the black, block printed words had bled together to form solid black lines, and one side of the document was shrouded in darkness. But considering the poor quality of the image, I think I still managed to make out a good deal of it. It doesn’t seem like I’ll be needing glasses anytime soon!
