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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=ASIAZAMZA3WHYCGMNBSB&Signature=wYcS3MBf9d2KXA3VvsVB2jTcjcQ%3D&x-amz-security-token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEAoaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIQDmjLuI37JXeOPTLcoQ9gt7seOiliEiC%2BB7ESlhAQs2hgIgcNgkqUGaTq8bThqUa%2BE%2FrjfT0G2JQYq4eW0kZpJiiboq7AMIExADGgw2MTkzMzMwODI1MTEiDJAswtT6C%2B08Sb%2FRBirJA0FbsTQ992QJaQrJSpQBdaxee%2FTVJw9XWhSE4TwHNkWFUKJI7P9QL4XSTd4hiRMNQAz5R%2F2o%2F89IYdd7fddAxED7raY8F%2BzimNSRX0RhP7CNCpRGvriEPueJlzXT9PWW650p2wNDmGAcDhWk%2BVX6Qa1Gtw4IC3mYgxkSv2V2wmWM1K9PHfpcXyd3ViEHAfwf5ChDXOkbLgUyTbNp8I9bQCJr17lWVtgGcMONSOHB4nYwyLLuhHU8LNwh3sd1fzw5IVqRqruBbqSF%2F7GABMepR%2BLMI7kdJc8JlEd%2BVHKkgfPnZcB0sBKtxTiH8H5ONkK2q88hLXk%2FJPtO1SHz1L9qbUwgsgcP8t7OjIaEtfVQYLy%2FnO%2BwjJpvwgVE4m6bNOBaEuBohMVmcz9eviGppnug5gnbSC7jmuvD4mqr%2FW8eBDvk759lwZKDuUheSPqKuWJ0UorT9lUWc8W0wvhEqyZk1eOTCEy1Q45TSD2B4BV3pGm2o6Jl77Qa672eUdUVZnc7mwJDujeSgXHp6s8xDMSf%2FD9BQfr4wDpo44whvT9ltDdFOwJu%2FaoksRbOC36YYL5nu7XqOiDAl2s3rOilXQ0BlwBTw1z6szk5p1cwncbNvAY6pQHGMnKRT788ExjNB%2Bab1yG0jeJkNpQNEKXshtTCVmh2rZ6RHYLXcVk%2BoeEXbNhJ53IvSi7IDw%2BbGs%2BmnpfTcz5Gv156401gN5c4uV85aRxPr%2FG8mXlyQ9eaNqX%2BBhhZ7VbOLYlc5ZmMyR2UZfgQwp1n2IsptmoMt%2FFV26ZGaiBw1%2BcDC%2FpSCQ%2FYLJQQGH%2BeFBR4sU5MB10ShaspJdoAV4%2FQiEXD0bk%3D&Expires=1737716651)
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=ASIAZAMZA3WHYCGMNBSB&Signature=gngCWPKZXqum5GnmboazUqor1VA%3D&x-amz-security-token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEAoaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIQDmjLuI37JXeOPTLcoQ9gt7seOiliEiC%2BB7ESlhAQs2hgIgcNgkqUGaTq8bThqUa%2BE%2FrjfT0G2JQYq4eW0kZpJiiboq7AMIExADGgw2MTkzMzMwODI1MTEiDJAswtT6C%2B08Sb%2FRBirJA0FbsTQ992QJaQrJSpQBdaxee%2FTVJw9XWhSE4TwHNkWFUKJI7P9QL4XSTd4hiRMNQAz5R%2F2o%2F89IYdd7fddAxED7raY8F%2BzimNSRX0RhP7CNCpRGvriEPueJlzXT9PWW650p2wNDmGAcDhWk%2BVX6Qa1Gtw4IC3mYgxkSv2V2wmWM1K9PHfpcXyd3ViEHAfwf5ChDXOkbLgUyTbNp8I9bQCJr17lWVtgGcMONSOHB4nYwyLLuhHU8LNwh3sd1fzw5IVqRqruBbqSF%2F7GABMepR%2BLMI7kdJc8JlEd%2BVHKkgfPnZcB0sBKtxTiH8H5ONkK2q88hLXk%2FJPtO1SHz1L9qbUwgsgcP8t7OjIaEtfVQYLy%2FnO%2BwjJpvwgVE4m6bNOBaEuBohMVmcz9eviGppnug5gnbSC7jmuvD4mqr%2FW8eBDvk759lwZKDuUheSPqKuWJ0UorT9lUWc8W0wvhEqyZk1eOTCEy1Q45TSD2B4BV3pGm2o6Jl77Qa672eUdUVZnc7mwJDujeSgXHp6s8xDMSf%2FD9BQfr4wDpo44whvT9ltDdFOwJu%2FaoksRbOC36YYL5nu7XqOiDAl2s3rOilXQ0BlwBTw1z6szk5p1cwncbNvAY6pQHGMnKRT788ExjNB%2Bab1yG0jeJkNpQNEKXshtTCVmh2rZ6RHYLXcVk%2BoeEXbNhJ53IvSi7IDw%2BbGs%2BmnpfTcz5Gv156401gN5c4uV85aRxPr%2FG8mXlyQ9eaNqX%2BBhhZ7VbOLYlc5ZmMyR2UZfgQwp1n2IsptmoMt%2FFV26ZGaiBw1%2BcDC%2FpSCQ%2FYLJQQGH%2BeFBR4sU5MB10ShaspJdoAV4%2FQiEXD0bk%3D&Expires=1737716651)
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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=ASIAZAMZA3WHYCGMNBSB&Signature=2rmikRmOT3VEbSfD1tYcK%2FnBdXE%3D&x-amz-security-token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEAoaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIQDmjLuI37JXeOPTLcoQ9gt7seOiliEiC%2BB7ESlhAQs2hgIgcNgkqUGaTq8bThqUa%2BE%2FrjfT0G2JQYq4eW0kZpJiiboq7AMIExADGgw2MTkzMzMwODI1MTEiDJAswtT6C%2B08Sb%2FRBirJA0FbsTQ992QJaQrJSpQBdaxee%2FTVJw9XWhSE4TwHNkWFUKJI7P9QL4XSTd4hiRMNQAz5R%2F2o%2F89IYdd7fddAxED7raY8F%2BzimNSRX0RhP7CNCpRGvriEPueJlzXT9PWW650p2wNDmGAcDhWk%2BVX6Qa1Gtw4IC3mYgxkSv2V2wmWM1K9PHfpcXyd3ViEHAfwf5ChDXOkbLgUyTbNp8I9bQCJr17lWVtgGcMONSOHB4nYwyLLuhHU8LNwh3sd1fzw5IVqRqruBbqSF%2F7GABMepR%2BLMI7kdJc8JlEd%2BVHKkgfPnZcB0sBKtxTiH8H5ONkK2q88hLXk%2FJPtO1SHz1L9qbUwgsgcP8t7OjIaEtfVQYLy%2FnO%2BwjJpvwgVE4m6bNOBaEuBohMVmcz9eviGppnug5gnbSC7jmuvD4mqr%2FW8eBDvk759lwZKDuUheSPqKuWJ0UorT9lUWc8W0wvhEqyZk1eOTCEy1Q45TSD2B4BV3pGm2o6Jl77Qa672eUdUVZnc7mwJDujeSgXHp6s8xDMSf%2FD9BQfr4wDpo44whvT9ltDdFOwJu%2FaoksRbOC36YYL5nu7XqOiDAl2s3rOilXQ0BlwBTw1z6szk5p1cwncbNvAY6pQHGMnKRT788ExjNB%2Bab1yG0jeJkNpQNEKXshtTCVmh2rZ6RHYLXcVk%2BoeEXbNhJ53IvSi7IDw%2BbGs%2BmnpfTcz5Gv156401gN5c4uV85aRxPr%2FG8mXlyQ9eaNqX%2BBhhZ7VbOLYlc5ZmMyR2UZfgQwp1n2IsptmoMt%2FFV26ZGaiBw1%2BcDC%2FpSCQ%2FYLJQQGH%2BeFBR4sU5MB10ShaspJdoAV4%2FQiEXD0bk%3D&Expires=1737716651)
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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=ASIAZAMZA3WHYCGMNBSB&Signature=rX6SjiOuXeoQPHkROtXtnhf9qrE%3D&x-amz-security-token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEAoaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJHMEUCIQDmjLuI37JXeOPTLcoQ9gt7seOiliEiC%2BB7ESlhAQs2hgIgcNgkqUGaTq8bThqUa%2BE%2FrjfT0G2JQYq4eW0kZpJiiboq7AMIExADGgw2MTkzMzMwODI1MTEiDJAswtT6C%2B08Sb%2FRBirJA0FbsTQ992QJaQrJSpQBdaxee%2FTVJw9XWhSE4TwHNkWFUKJI7P9QL4XSTd4hiRMNQAz5R%2F2o%2F89IYdd7fddAxED7raY8F%2BzimNSRX0RhP7CNCpRGvriEPueJlzXT9PWW650p2wNDmGAcDhWk%2BVX6Qa1Gtw4IC3mYgxkSv2V2wmWM1K9PHfpcXyd3ViEHAfwf5ChDXOkbLgUyTbNp8I9bQCJr17lWVtgGcMONSOHB4nYwyLLuhHU8LNwh3sd1fzw5IVqRqruBbqSF%2F7GABMepR%2BLMI7kdJc8JlEd%2BVHKkgfPnZcB0sBKtxTiH8H5ONkK2q88hLXk%2FJPtO1SHz1L9qbUwgsgcP8t7OjIaEtfVQYLy%2FnO%2BwjJpvwgVE4m6bNOBaEuBohMVmcz9eviGppnug5gnbSC7jmuvD4mqr%2FW8eBDvk759lwZKDuUheSPqKuWJ0UorT9lUWc8W0wvhEqyZk1eOTCEy1Q45TSD2B4BV3pGm2o6Jl77Qa672eUdUVZnc7mwJDujeSgXHp6s8xDMSf%2FD9BQfr4wDpo44whvT9ltDdFOwJu%2FaoksRbOC36YYL5nu7XqOiDAl2s3rOilXQ0BlwBTw1z6szk5p1cwncbNvAY6pQHGMnKRT788ExjNB%2Bab1yG0jeJkNpQNEKXshtTCVmh2rZ6RHYLXcVk%2BoeEXbNhJ53IvSi7IDw%2BbGs%2BmnpfTcz5Gv156401gN5c4uV85aRxPr%2FG8mXlyQ9eaNqX%2BBhhZ7VbOLYlc5ZmMyR2UZfgQwp1n2IsptmoMt%2FFV26ZGaiBw1%2BcDC%2FpSCQ%2FYLJQQGH%2BeFBR4sU5MB10ShaspJdoAV4%2FQiEXD0bk%3D&Expires=1737716651)
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