README.md

metadata

license: other
pretty_name: Peabody Newspaper Index Cards (Peabody Institute Library, MA)
tags:
  - index-cards
  - archives
  - glam
  - ocr
  - local-history
  - genealogy
  - newspapers
  - public-domain
task_categories:
  - image-to-text
  - image-classification
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
language:
  - en

Peabody Newspaper Index Cards (Peabody Institute Library, MA)

3,694 typewritten index cards from the Peabody Institute Library — Sutton Room Local History Resource Center (Peabody, Massachusetts), indexing people, events, and news in South Danvers / Peabody as recorded in local newspapers. The information was typed onto cards over decades by library staff as the local newspaper-of-record archive's principal finding aid.

Plus a companion "Poor Family" genealogy index from the same library.

Harvested from 5 IA items: APeabodyNewspaperIndexCards · BPeabodyNewspaperIndexCards · cpeabodynewspaperindexcards · dpeabodynewspaperindexcards · PoorFamilyIndexCardsGenealogy (the first four are surnames A–D of the running newspaper index).

Each row pairs the full-resolution card scan with the Internet Archive's ABBYY OCR text and full provenance back to the source IA item.

Source & licence

• Source: Peabody Institute Library, Sutton Room Local History Resource Center, via the Internet Archive collection peabodyinstitutelibrarylocalhistoryresourcecenter (uploaded by bauer@noblenet.org — NOBLE / North of Boston Library Exchange).
• Licence: Public Domain. Every source IA item carries Public Domain Mark 1.0 with rights: NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES.

Schema

column	type	description
image	image	the card scan (JPEG, re-encoded from the IA JP2 derivative)
ocr_text	string	full-item OCR text from the IA ABBYY/DjVu output
page	int	page index within the source item
source_id	string	IA item identifier
source_title	string	IA item title
source_collection	string	IA collection (peabodyinstitutelibrarylocalhistoryresourcecenter or peabodyinstitutelibrarycollection)
source_url	string	https://archive.org/details/<source_id>
license	string	public domain (per row)
theme	string	library_local_history

Citation

Peabody Institute Library, Sutton Room Local History Resource Center. Newspaper Index Card collection (surnames A–D) + Poor Family Genealogy Index Cards. Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/peabodyinstitutelibrarylocalhistoryresourcecenter.

Sibling datasets

Browse the wider catalogue: BigLAM "Index card datasets" collection.