#crowd_sourcing

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For the opening act, NYPL Labs digitized about 1,000 early 20th century theater programs from 5 microfilm reels and, working together with curators, built a tool for transcribing them. The Library needs your help capturing key information about the performances these programs represent. Stuff like: theater name, location, show title and date -- as well as details such as cast lists, production staff (and the beautifully, sometimes hilariously, antiquated advertisements found throughout). The entities you transcribe will be compared with the submissions of other users to form a "consensus document", which will contribute to a crowd-vetted directory of historical performance in New York (and perhaps beyond)!

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1,100 photographs taken by relief workers during the immediate postwar period. The Holocaust Museum uses this website to identify these children, piece together information about their wartime and postwar experiences, and facilitate renewed connections among these young survivors, their families, and other individuals who were involved in their care during and after the war.