If you ’re a student of history , you ’ve probably scoped out the vast resourcefulness of the National Archives , which wasestablished byPresident Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 as a authorities repository of information , documents , and picture that chronicle our past . Today , the organization estimates it maintains a permanent account of 2 to 5 percentage of all federal records .
Curating all of that information is an outsized task , which is why the NA often calls upon the ecumenical public to assist in organizing entropy as part of theirCitizen Archivist Missionsprogram .
One of their latest need : Preserving photo caption from World War I.
The NA has atroveof more than 5000 photographs from the war that have been digitalize and are keep company by text . for make them searchable online , the file need to have their captions trail using keywords and transcribed by a human . The photograph are comprised of equipment , personnel department , training locations , and more .
If World War I is n’t quite your niche , the NA has a telephone number of other task in want of attention . There are service cards document the activity of nurses between 1861 and 1865 , military help award records from 1942 to 1963 , and even a motor hotel case require Muhammad Ali ’s position as a conscientious dissenter during the Vietnam War , among others .
The work is unpaid , but the rewards — preserving events of important historical grandness — are bountiful . You canregisteras a Citizen Archivist on the National Archives site , where you’re able to also find tutorials on how to complete projects .
