I believe the site is being hammered right now; I'm putting this link here to remember to come back to later: crowdsourcing history by asking people to transcribe pages from Civil War-era diaries.
When I was in library school, I worked on a project (not online publicly) wherein we scanned 19th and early 20th century travel books from a library's collection and transcribed them.
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Small world! IIRC, The Young Lady was working on some of that last semester as part of one of her media classes.
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When I was in library school, I worked on a project (not online publicly) wherein we scanned 19th and early 20th century travel books from a library's collection and transcribed them.