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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=ASIAZAMZA3WHVQ4PHH45&Signature=2ylnbp6R%2FR6DcdfqmxO5aberJYE%3D&x-amz-security-token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEO3%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJGMEQCIF5oPkLfONRP5bfH8QQ5jn324eZ7oD4aSnibuTYUk23XAiAOcM0njRVi44thVO5USj2%2BZR%2BPn3evxifnSYYEFpIbkSr1Awjl%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F8BEAMaDDYxOTMzMzA4MjUxMSIMvY5WU3DuJhE48%2FrSKskD9Mj%2FSD%2BBYeU58A96Qt4EXLpRVXpeYox4poEEyCAGxVKRYGrGtQh2%2BnhWO19coRNSWlwQKl8fzw1dKu8uYpvPI%2F%2FVI2i4Kt9qMxqqoxAUCdM2U6GCuS2Lwk5zWiasnsxAjGSd39Z5wTO%2BxvgHaGuB4JtWCA9K981TYxzyGlZcEv9%2Br5IDMXEijkOtGidYVTvbwBH0ddNNUtNG3vbGC7%2BK1SFxxS9QiLIDf8tj5y%2Fk97FQwm3pJSsOlfo%2FNVpX6Nh6diXDA0EwN9To4LTs%2FGuOwlKQe8dIK59eZQm6A7vjKfOEaH1ywycPBcbxnfwj4Qz8nJu9XOItoIdTNxVETPuph0hlfOnOLai%2FlWJoozC9642ChNwp9x3wSR0WvamPkA4WGsMxO%2BABvP65jkd8v8uGVjOgVJgRhGAqJYwtBrk7l9yFBJK8WoC%2FImfMKC8skmhDkYbC30iPbr17c%2BszAK4g%2B%2FixSd6i9EaAQpJM2bbynGxjJHC%2FFcQRMFyqtdb3WmtwA%2FE5EV4bs2CmHquVHb6jscQewdlBw%2BsLOppZaX0HwV7WiKnoQ6pUXItSK%2Fqj9F1rJBzA%2B2rxTRvNjLDdUTaC%2FF752Aw0Xt2l4TDTh8e8BjqmAblxjwGT5KBKsfBHDYZ1dgTERYSIKOpkBk8ycF7%2BZCZYspPEY43ueIGotQgJH9ikuiMBfc7cb8e5oHO4RuW%2BOKyh2JM67Av140ZqiDwpS8Xl4Cg84sVAtaIW%2F4QMFUYXtEIJsNQ2ueWg9SQOukKWZ3u6AD09qK4k3SoZKQL3%2FnUwfuxDbs8gsLOnuv13GmKnF8GBHh40c5H4aCT99FOG0aTjXMIPZk4%3D&Expires=1737611298)
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.
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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=ASIAZAMZA3WHVQ4PHH45&Signature=%2F%2BfWHn8w79AlmjRf94JG6840Nio%3D&x-amz-security-token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEO3%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJGMEQCIF5oPkLfONRP5bfH8QQ5jn324eZ7oD4aSnibuTYUk23XAiAOcM0njRVi44thVO5USj2%2BZR%2BPn3evxifnSYYEFpIbkSr1Awjl%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F8BEAMaDDYxOTMzMzA4MjUxMSIMvY5WU3DuJhE48%2FrSKskD9Mj%2FSD%2BBYeU58A96Qt4EXLpRVXpeYox4poEEyCAGxVKRYGrGtQh2%2BnhWO19coRNSWlwQKl8fzw1dKu8uYpvPI%2F%2FVI2i4Kt9qMxqqoxAUCdM2U6GCuS2Lwk5zWiasnsxAjGSd39Z5wTO%2BxvgHaGuB4JtWCA9K981TYxzyGlZcEv9%2Br5IDMXEijkOtGidYVTvbwBH0ddNNUtNG3vbGC7%2BK1SFxxS9QiLIDf8tj5y%2Fk97FQwm3pJSsOlfo%2FNVpX6Nh6diXDA0EwN9To4LTs%2FGuOwlKQe8dIK59eZQm6A7vjKfOEaH1ywycPBcbxnfwj4Qz8nJu9XOItoIdTNxVETPuph0hlfOnOLai%2FlWJoozC9642ChNwp9x3wSR0WvamPkA4WGsMxO%2BABvP65jkd8v8uGVjOgVJgRhGAqJYwtBrk7l9yFBJK8WoC%2FImfMKC8skmhDkYbC30iPbr17c%2BszAK4g%2B%2FixSd6i9EaAQpJM2bbynGxjJHC%2FFcQRMFyqtdb3WmtwA%2FE5EV4bs2CmHquVHb6jscQewdlBw%2BsLOppZaX0HwV7WiKnoQ6pUXItSK%2Fqj9F1rJBzA%2B2rxTRvNjLDdUTaC%2FF752Aw0Xt2l4TDTh8e8BjqmAblxjwGT5KBKsfBHDYZ1dgTERYSIKOpkBk8ycF7%2BZCZYspPEY43ueIGotQgJH9ikuiMBfc7cb8e5oHO4RuW%2BOKyh2JM67Av140ZqiDwpS8Xl4Cg84sVAtaIW%2F4QMFUYXtEIJsNQ2ueWg9SQOukKWZ3u6AD09qK4k3SoZKQL3%2FnUwfuxDbs8gsLOnuv13GmKnF8GBHh40c5H4aCT99FOG0aTjXMIPZk4%3D&Expires=1737611298)
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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=ASIAZAMZA3WHVQ4PHH45&Signature=gH9WzOGVlKwBMhbyvbY%2BhmigxZQ%3D&x-amz-security-token=IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEO3%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2FwEaCXVzLWVhc3QtMSJGMEQCIF5oPkLfONRP5bfH8QQ5jn324eZ7oD4aSnibuTYUk23XAiAOcM0njRVi44thVO5USj2%2BZR%2BPn3evxifnSYYEFpIbkSr1Awjl%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F%2F8BEAMaDDYxOTMzMzA4MjUxMSIMvY5WU3DuJhE48%2FrSKskD9Mj%2FSD%2BBYeU58A96Qt4EXLpRVXpeYox4poEEyCAGxVKRYGrGtQh2%2BnhWO19coRNSWlwQKl8fzw1dKu8uYpvPI%2F%2FVI2i4Kt9qMxqqoxAUCdM2U6GCuS2Lwk5zWiasnsxAjGSd39Z5wTO%2BxvgHaGuB4JtWCA9K981TYxzyGlZcEv9%2Br5IDMXEijkOtGidYVTvbwBH0ddNNUtNG3vbGC7%2BK1SFxxS9QiLIDf8tj5y%2Fk97FQwm3pJSsOlfo%2FNVpX6Nh6diXDA0EwN9To4LTs%2FGuOwlKQe8dIK59eZQm6A7vjKfOEaH1ywycPBcbxnfwj4Qz8nJu9XOItoIdTNxVETPuph0hlfOnOLai%2FlWJoozC9642ChNwp9x3wSR0WvamPkA4WGsMxO%2BABvP65jkd8v8uGVjOgVJgRhGAqJYwtBrk7l9yFBJK8WoC%2FImfMKC8skmhDkYbC30iPbr17c%2BszAK4g%2B%2FixSd6i9EaAQpJM2bbynGxjJHC%2FFcQRMFyqtdb3WmtwA%2FE5EV4bs2CmHquVHb6jscQewdlBw%2BsLOppZaX0HwV7WiKnoQ6pUXItSK%2Fqj9F1rJBzA%2B2rxTRvNjLDdUTaC%2FF752Aw0Xt2l4TDTh8e8BjqmAblxjwGT5KBKsfBHDYZ1dgTERYSIKOpkBk8ycF7%2BZCZYspPEY43ueIGotQgJH9ikuiMBfc7cb8e5oHO4RuW%2BOKyh2JM67Av140ZqiDwpS8Xl4Cg84sVAtaIW%2F4QMFUYXtEIJsNQ2ueWg9SQOukKWZ3u6AD09qK4k3SoZKQL3%2FnUwfuxDbs8gsLOnuv13GmKnF8GBHh40c5H4aCT99FOG0aTjXMIPZk4%3D&Expires=1737611298)
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