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This digital documentary edition encompasses transcribed texts and data from records of weather and climate in Thomas Jefferson’s papers. Included are Jefferson’s daily meteorological observations from July 1776 to June 1826, plus summary tables, descriptive notations, and graphs, as well as some observation records of other individuals. The edition provides images of the original manuscripts and tools for searching, filtering, and displaying the data content in different forms, utilizing it by inactive visualizations, and downloading it in csv format. Graphic illustrations from the period and contextual and explanatory information supplement the documentary content. This digital resource is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Subjects or Themes

History of Science and Technology, Meteorology, Phenology, Weather and Climate

Project Language(s)

English

Time Period

Geographic Location

Project Categories

Content Type

Primary Sources, Textual Transcriptions, Datasets, Mapping, Data Visualizations, Contextual Annotation

Target Audience(s)

Creators

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University, and The Center for Digital Editing, University of Virginia

Year(s)

2019-present

Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University

Software Employed

Labor and Support

Core effort was provided by full-time professional staff of the collaborating projects and by paid undergraduate student interns.

Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement

Funding for this project has been provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and private sources. The project's creators also receive support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).