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biglam/index-cards-cas-galapagos-stewart-specimens

Alban Stewart's Galápagos Expedition Specimen Cards (CAS Archives, 1905–1906) 1,059 specimen index cards from the California Academy of Sciences Archives, documenting Alban Stewart's botanical specimens collected on the 1905–1906 California Academy of Sciences Galápagos Expedition. One card per specimen with species, locality on the islands, collection date and field notes; companion to Stewart's expedition journal. Harvested from the 6 IA items csfa788562626 +… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/index-cards-cas-galapagos-stewart-specimens.

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Alban Stewart's Galápagos Expedition Specimen Cards (CAS Archives, 1905–1906)

1,059 specimen index cards from the California Academy of Sciences Archives, documenting Alban Stewart's botanical specimens collected on the 1905–1906 California Academy of Sciences Galápagos Expedition. One card per specimen with species, locality on the islands, collection date and field notes; companion to Stewart's expedition journal.

Harvested from the 6 IA items `csfa788562626` + csfa788562626Alpha + csfa788562626Pack{1,2,3,4}.

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 & attribution

—Source: California Academy of Sciences Archives — Alban Stewart Galápagos expedition journal and specimen card file, 1905–1906.
—IA items: `csfa788562626Alpha`, `csfa788562626`, `csfa788562626Pack1` through Pack4.
—Rights: Original cards © California Academy of Sciences. The source IA items declare possible-copyright-status: In copyright. Digitized with the permission of the rights holder.
—Licence for reuse: Biodiversity Heritage Library Permissions. The BHL framework permits reuse with attribution. On any reuse, please credit California Academy of Sciences Archives and Alban Stewart, and link back to the source IA item and to BHL permissions.

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 (`biodiversity`)
`source_url`	string	`https://archive.org/details/<source_id>`
`license`	string	`undetermined` (legacy field; actual rights = CAS © + BHL Permissions, see above)
`theme`	string	`natural_history_specimen`

How this was built

Part of an exploration of public archival index-card collections for GLAM/AI work. The reusable harvester (resumable per-item parquet shards, polite IA access, JP2 → JPEG decode via Pillow) runs on Hugging Face Jobs against a curated list of IA items.

Citation

Stewart, Alban. Alban Stewart Galápagos expedition journal and specimen card file, 1905–1906 (Inclusive). California Academy of Sciences Archives. Available via the Internet Archive / Biodiversity Heritage Library: <https://archive.org/details/csfa788562626Alpha>. Reuse under <https://biodiversitylibrary.org/permissions>.

Sibling datasets

`biglam/index-cards-harvard-botany-metropolitan-flora` — Walter Deane's 1894–95 Card File of the Flora of the Metropolitan Parks (Harvard Botany Libraries, NOTINCOPYRIGHT).

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