Building a Digital Collection

Project Origins

Project Overview

Frances Seward: A Nineteenth-Century American Woman 

Digital Humanities and the Seward Project

Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation and the Seward Project

Community Volunteers and the Seward Project 

Requesting Manuscripts

Digitization

Annotation and Transcription 

Editing

TEI

Uploading Letters 

Seward Project Overview, 2018

Thomas P. Slaughter, Arthur R. Miller Professor of History explains the Seward Family Digital Archive Project.

Seward Stories Presentations, April 12, 2017

Student presentations from the fourth annual Seward Family Digital Archive's Seward Stories event.

Anne Fennimore on confidential documents from Charles Sumner. 

Omar Masood on the intersections of class, race and gender in a Seward letter.

Serenity Sutherland on leaving and saying goodbye on the Seward Project.

From Fall 2015: "Spanning the Generations, One Letter at a Time"

A film about the collaboration between the Seward Family Digital Archive and the Highlands at Pittsford, a retirement community in Pittsford, NY.