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![Black and white 1951 U.S. Naturalization card for Hannah Arendt. Includes a photograph of Arendt, a middle-aged woman with short dark hair. The rest of the card is printed and typed text including her address in New York City.](https://crowd-content.s3.amazonaws.com/card_images/CampCard_Arendt.png?AWSAccessKeyId=ASIAZAMZA3WH35HK6RLA&Signature=7qPBbLr4QtPdlgYJHNY318dJ2pk%3D&x-amz-security-token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEEoaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJGMEQCIBgJ%2FwEINBOla%2BlHcty8zV8UAhh4bH58YbByagMT85%2BfAiB%2BQTzwpYUg1uFpD4QOlqmxS1gEe0%2FIqAuJx6vBaxzZdCr1Awjz%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F8BEAMaDDYxOTMzMzA4MjUxMSIMGVn034OqgiOueU%2FkKskDtU0%2BCRQ8f8tuka1%2BBcyBS5OuXu5HhaM%2BwJ5lLamAUjibhuL8WcitBLlVZ7QPW2LQc9geFgIzGxvOHrCtcmevVVwKr%2B4fieB%2FAsNytG9DxqEvOXf966I5MDo54tqXH%2FPms7L5sfUrmPIkQiBD%2FFrR%2F7L8rZR96EHigi5fp8lVPHUPWmeEa9V5wfHDVqZzn51tnEXcpx0%2BQWEherucQ6mmbBNxCL9HOUNy8YPe7AVT%2Bxs4Ltnsl66qSwy55PpSvTIiNE5yf5k%2BA3exb2sFRVBbn0r7M1SoSqJK3yol7Nf1SL3MSEWYx%2BavskZmP63nEgAFY7tPZBaR3Hdqr3mC%2BFgn70s4wl0Z4pFGJE%2F2Ku%2B8GvUsoIE5MpjnfnBzHiAvNk12MBVlbrqjj0%2FqYKNGCWqW0pqVqqKhsCAdZdaKarxzcZ6p2h%2Fn4Synp8EjlLPgkUL1vjFlF8fIWChZwKjRtkAiQMLpToLEQ9eTCdb0KfoToPJ7lsEvvB%2FuCf8SsfpyK1gRCx8unx9HduJGrtU7u%2FMFIyef%2FLBsp7IfjHD4%2ByhlYY3%2FXtVQC%2Bc4FSZ8P2IvaKw%2FxblrVmYzcLbIEIh6Dh2MKA10CGCw8QX4XDCsqcK6BjqmAQ5qW7SY00%2BnyqQChAtqmFLnqeGUAF756iOUvI9VlATe%2BHeCtAZgm6pX4lEO201bMFuCv7nkHZOlRjffsFG3DjWf4tpUSjzY9Vfx1JA98nuAVux4ZmL90jW00BaajbGSPtN2FAPRck8xuT6r9wVJRFYlewxxH2D3v4yc6bExaYtK7dnHK10pQNDrr%2F9boSTEOi0FTVcLUUAxE%2Brdo149cCQGXexQM8E%3D&Expires=1733339069)
Transcribing Arendt
Political theorist and cultural critic Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) fled from Germany and occupied France and came to the U.S. as a Jewish refugee from the Nazi regime.
Correspondence, syllabi, speeches, research materials, and writings convey the public Arendt, a brilliant writer, teacher, activist, and thinker who interacted with a who’s who of fellow literati and intellectuals.
Letters and notes in her papers document Arendt's personal life as a wife, family member, friend, mentor, and colleague.
![Screenshot of the Library of Congress transcription interface showing a handwritten document in Spanish in the image viewer on the left and the typed transcription of the page on the right.](https://crowd-content.s3.amazonaws.com/card_images/Languages.png?AWSAccessKeyId=ASIAZAMZA3WH35HK6RLA&Signature=uXJufu8aotNqX5zLBxnyN8YIp7Y%3D&x-amz-security-token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEEoaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJGMEQCIBgJ%2FwEINBOla%2BlHcty8zV8UAhh4bH58YbByagMT85%2BfAiB%2BQTzwpYUg1uFpD4QOlqmxS1gEe0%2FIqAuJx6vBaxzZdCr1Awjz%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F8BEAMaDDYxOTMzMzA4MjUxMSIMGVn034OqgiOueU%2FkKskDtU0%2BCRQ8f8tuka1%2BBcyBS5OuXu5HhaM%2BwJ5lLamAUjibhuL8WcitBLlVZ7QPW2LQc9geFgIzGxvOHrCtcmevVVwKr%2B4fieB%2FAsNytG9DxqEvOXf966I5MDo54tqXH%2FPms7L5sfUrmPIkQiBD%2FFrR%2F7L8rZR96EHigi5fp8lVPHUPWmeEa9V5wfHDVqZzn51tnEXcpx0%2BQWEherucQ6mmbBNxCL9HOUNy8YPe7AVT%2Bxs4Ltnsl66qSwy55PpSvTIiNE5yf5k%2BA3exb2sFRVBbn0r7M1SoSqJK3yol7Nf1SL3MSEWYx%2BavskZmP63nEgAFY7tPZBaR3Hdqr3mC%2BFgn70s4wl0Z4pFGJE%2F2Ku%2B8GvUsoIE5MpjnfnBzHiAvNk12MBVlbrqjj0%2FqYKNGCWqW0pqVqqKhsCAdZdaKarxzcZ6p2h%2Fn4Synp8EjlLPgkUL1vjFlF8fIWChZwKjRtkAiQMLpToLEQ9eTCdb0KfoToPJ7lsEvvB%2FuCf8SsfpyK1gRCx8unx9HduJGrtU7u%2FMFIyef%2FLBsp7IfjHD4%2ByhlYY3%2FXtVQC%2Bc4FSZ8P2IvaKw%2FxblrVmYzcLbIEIh6Dh2MKA10CGCw8QX4XDCsqcK6BjqmAQ5qW7SY00%2BnyqQChAtqmFLnqeGUAF756iOUvI9VlATe%2BHeCtAZgm6pX4lEO201bMFuCv7nkHZOlRjffsFG3DjWf4tpUSjzY9Vfx1JA98nuAVux4ZmL90jW00BaajbGSPtN2FAPRck8xuT6r9wVJRFYlewxxH2D3v4yc6bExaYtK7dnHK10pQNDrr%2F9boSTEOi0FTVcLUUAxE%2Brdo149cCQGXexQM8E%3D&Expires=1733339069)
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![Close up of a portion of a typed script from one of Leonard Bernstein's televised Young People's Concerts. The following text is typed on blue paper: BERNSTEIN (CONT'D) Is that heartbroken-sounding music the real Mahler? Or the other sleigh-bell happy sound? No - they're both Mahler, voices of the two different people inside him."](https://crowd-content.s3.amazonaws.com/card_images/OCR_2023778392-9.png?AWSAccessKeyId=ASIAZAMZA3WH35HK6RLA&Signature=6w6lDS%2FKmofNdr7A7NdFDSVxZV0%3D&x-amz-security-token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEEoaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJGMEQCIBgJ%2FwEINBOla%2BlHcty8zV8UAhh4bH58YbByagMT85%2BfAiB%2BQTzwpYUg1uFpD4QOlqmxS1gEe0%2FIqAuJx6vBaxzZdCr1Awjz%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F8BEAMaDDYxOTMzMzA4MjUxMSIMGVn034OqgiOueU%2FkKskDtU0%2BCRQ8f8tuka1%2BBcyBS5OuXu5HhaM%2BwJ5lLamAUjibhuL8WcitBLlVZ7QPW2LQc9geFgIzGxvOHrCtcmevVVwKr%2B4fieB%2FAsNytG9DxqEvOXf966I5MDo54tqXH%2FPms7L5sfUrmPIkQiBD%2FFrR%2F7L8rZR96EHigi5fp8lVPHUPWmeEa9V5wfHDVqZzn51tnEXcpx0%2BQWEherucQ6mmbBNxCL9HOUNy8YPe7AVT%2Bxs4Ltnsl66qSwy55PpSvTIiNE5yf5k%2BA3exb2sFRVBbn0r7M1SoSqJK3yol7Nf1SL3MSEWYx%2BavskZmP63nEgAFY7tPZBaR3Hdqr3mC%2BFgn70s4wl0Z4pFGJE%2F2Ku%2B8GvUsoIE5MpjnfnBzHiAvNk12MBVlbrqjj0%2FqYKNGCWqW0pqVqqKhsCAdZdaKarxzcZ6p2h%2Fn4Synp8EjlLPgkUL1vjFlF8fIWChZwKjRtkAiQMLpToLEQ9eTCdb0KfoToPJ7lsEvvB%2FuCf8SsfpyK1gRCx8unx9HduJGrtU7u%2FMFIyef%2FLBsp7IfjHD4%2ByhlYY3%2FXtVQC%2Bc4FSZ8P2IvaKw%2FxblrVmYzcLbIEIh6Dh2MKA10CGCw8QX4XDCsqcK6BjqmAQ5qW7SY00%2BnyqQChAtqmFLnqeGUAF756iOUvI9VlATe%2BHeCtAZgm6pX4lEO201bMFuCv7nkHZOlRjffsFG3DjWf4tpUSjzY9Vfx1JA98nuAVux4ZmL90jW00BaajbGSPtN2FAPRck8xuT6r9wVJRFYlewxxH2D3v4yc6bExaYtK7dnHK10pQNDrr%2F9boSTEOi0FTVcLUUAxE%2Brdo149cCQGXexQM8E%3D&Expires=1733339069)
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![Walt Whitman's handwritten draft of his poem "O Captain! My Captain", including crossouts and different words than the final published version.](https://crowd-content.s3.amazonaws.com/card_images/TranscriptionBasics_Whitman_mss18630_027_52_003.png?AWSAccessKeyId=ASIAZAMZA3WH35HK6RLA&Signature=aXht1GzKELkcIWf60MI%2FO43IlcM%3D&x-amz-security-token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEEoaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJGMEQCIBgJ%2FwEINBOla%2BlHcty8zV8UAhh4bH58YbByagMT85%2BfAiB%2BQTzwpYUg1uFpD4QOlqmxS1gEe0%2FIqAuJx6vBaxzZdCr1Awjz%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F8BEAMaDDYxOTMzMzA4MjUxMSIMGVn034OqgiOueU%2FkKskDtU0%2BCRQ8f8tuka1%2BBcyBS5OuXu5HhaM%2BwJ5lLamAUjibhuL8WcitBLlVZ7QPW2LQc9geFgIzGxvOHrCtcmevVVwKr%2B4fieB%2FAsNytG9DxqEvOXf966I5MDo54tqXH%2FPms7L5sfUrmPIkQiBD%2FFrR%2F7L8rZR96EHigi5fp8lVPHUPWmeEa9V5wfHDVqZzn51tnEXcpx0%2BQWEherucQ6mmbBNxCL9HOUNy8YPe7AVT%2Bxs4Ltnsl66qSwy55PpSvTIiNE5yf5k%2BA3exb2sFRVBbn0r7M1SoSqJK3yol7Nf1SL3MSEWYx%2BavskZmP63nEgAFY7tPZBaR3Hdqr3mC%2BFgn70s4wl0Z4pFGJE%2F2Ku%2B8GvUsoIE5MpjnfnBzHiAvNk12MBVlbrqjj0%2FqYKNGCWqW0pqVqqKhsCAdZdaKarxzcZ6p2h%2Fn4Synp8EjlLPgkUL1vjFlF8fIWChZwKjRtkAiQMLpToLEQ9eTCdb0KfoToPJ7lsEvvB%2FuCf8SsfpyK1gRCx8unx9HduJGrtU7u%2FMFIyef%2FLBsp7IfjHD4%2ByhlYY3%2FXtVQC%2Bc4FSZ8P2IvaKw%2FxblrVmYzcLbIEIh6Dh2MKA10CGCw8QX4XDCsqcK6BjqmAQ5qW7SY00%2BnyqQChAtqmFLnqeGUAF756iOUvI9VlATe%2BHeCtAZgm6pX4lEO201bMFuCv7nkHZOlRjffsFG3DjWf4tpUSjzY9Vfx1JA98nuAVux4ZmL90jW00BaajbGSPtN2FAPRck8xuT6r9wVJRFYlewxxH2D3v4yc6bExaYtK7dnHK10pQNDrr%2F9boSTEOi0FTVcLUUAxE%2Brdo149cCQGXexQM8E%3D&Expires=1733339069)
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