These datasets are created from a volume of 372 pages that records receipt and dispatch of all mail in the Philadelphia Post Office between May 25, 1748 and July 23, 1752. Deliveries into the Post Office from out of town were listed, letter by letter, by the names of the addressees, weight and amount due, paid or free. Outgoing mail was simply listed by number of sheets and weight, not by individual letters. The data is presented here in two sets, one for incoming and one for outgoing.
The records were kept during Benjamin Franklin's tenure as Postmaster of Philadelphia.
These datasets are created from a volume of 372 pages that records receipt and dispatch of all mail in the Philadelphia Post Office between May 25, 1748 and July 23, 1752. Deliveries into the Post Office from out of town were listed, letter by letter, by the names of the addressees, weight and amount due, paid or free. Outgoing mail was simply listed by number of sheets and weight, not by individual letters. The data is presented here in two sets, one for incoming and one for outgoing. The records were kept during Benjamin Franklin's tenure as Postmaster of Philadelphia., This compressed .zip file contains "Dataset (Incoming)" (csv), "Dataset (Outgoing)" (csv), and "Documentation for BF85f6-8" (txt).
Dataset created from Admission Book A of the Eastern State Penitentiary. The admission book is a record of admission of prisoners number 20 through 1124, including name, crime, sentence, place of origin, race/ethnicity, time in and time out, and comments on moral and educational condition. This dataset was created by volunteers at the American Philosophical Society., For a scan of the original book, see PID text:137948. This dataset is available for anyone to evaluate, share, reuse, and remix as they wish under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
This dataset was created from Eastern State Penitentiary Admission Book Volume B, from 1839. The document is a record of admission of prisoners number 1125 through 1677, including name, crime, sentence, place of origin, race/ethnicity, time in and time out, and comments on moral and educational condition. Some also include notes on previous convictions or progress made while incarcerated. Includes list of books received for prisoners from J.J. Barclay, as well as a list of Germans in the Penitentiary. This dataset was created by volunteers at the American Philosophical Society., For a scan of the original book, see PID text:138834. This dataset is available for anyone to evaluate, share, reuse, and remix as they wish under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Dataset created from Admission Book D of the Eastern State Penitentiary. Record of admission of prisoners number 1941 through 2600, including name, crime, sentence, place of origin, race/ethnicity, time in and time out, and comments on moral and educational condition. This dataset was created by volunteers at the American Philosophical Society., For a scan of the original book, see PID text:139115. This dataset is available for anyone to evaluate, share, reuse, and remix as they wish under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
"This is the first of two volumes of manuscript tables recording daily weather and other data, such as notes on plant sowing, harvesting, bird migration, and other seasonal phenomena at James Madison's plantation, Montpelier. Some notes are in Dolley Madison's hand.", This dataset contains the information from volume 1 (1784- 1788) and is fully interoperable with Mss5515M26-02 (1789-1793). The manuscript entries were originally transcribed into database/tabular form by Dr. Daniel Druckenbrod. His organization scheme and annotations remain in the columns 'Druckenbrod Sort ID' and 'Druckenbrod Notes'. With the permission of Dr. Druckenbrod, these datasets were reviewed, edited, and restructured when necessary to ensure interoperability with similar datasets being created at UVA from Thomas Jefferson's weather records. Specific alterations are noted in the "Normalization and Data Standards" section of the documentation. These changes as well as other notes from the process at APS are found in each dataset's 'APS Notes' column.
"This is the first of two volumes of manuscript tables recording daily weather and other data, such as notes on plant sowing, harvesting, bird migration, and other seasonal phenomena at James Madison's plantation, Montpelier. Some notes are in Dolley Madison's hand.", This compressed .zip file contains "Mss551M26-01: Meteorological Journal vol. 1, 1784-1788, Dataset" (csv) and "Mss551M26-01: Meteorological Journal vol. 1, 1784-1788, Documentation" (txt).
The documentation for Mss5515M26-01 contains descriptive metadata regarding the dataset and the source material. Also included is version information, normalization steps taken, related datasets, usage license details, preferred citation, and attribution of labor., For column structure and descriptions, see the associated JSON document.
"This is the second of two volumes of manuscript tables recording daily weather and other data, such as notes on plant sowing, harvesting, bird migration, and other seasonal phenomena at James Madison's plantation, Montpelier. Some notes are in Dolley Madison's hand.", This dataset contains the information from volume 2 (1789-1793) and is fully interoperable with Mss5515M26-01 (1784-1788). The manuscript entries were originally transcribed into database/tabular form by Dr. Daniel Druckenbrod. His organization scheme and annotations remain in the columns 'Druckenbrod Sort ID' and 'Druckenbrod Notes'. With the permission of Dr. Druckenbrod, these datasets were reviewed, edited, and restructured when necessary to ensure interoperability with similar datasets being created at UVA from Thomas Jefferson's weather records. Specific alterations are noted in the "Normalization and Data Standards" section of the documentation file. These changes as well as other notes from the process at APS are found in each dataset's 'APS Notes' column.
"This is the second of two volumes of manuscript tables recording daily weather and other data, such as notes on plant sowing, harvesting, bird migration, and other seasonal phenomena at James Madison's plantation, Montpelier. Some notes are in Dolley Madison's hand.", This compressed .zip file contains "Mss551M26-02: Meteorological Journal vol. 2, 1789-1793, Dataset" (csv) and "Mss551M26-02: Meteorological Journal vol. 2, 1789-17893 Documentation" (txt).
The documentation for Mss5515M26-02 contains descriptive metadata regarding the dataset and the source material. Also included is version information, normalization steps taken, related datasets, usage license details, preferred citation, and attribution of labor., For column structure and descriptions, see the associated JSON document.
