📻 Citizen science in the archive: the Zooniverse project "My Dear Mr. Welles" transcribes fan and hate mail people wrote after the famous War of the Worlds radio broadcast (1938). Volunteers help open up a historical source for researchers.
(25 May 2026)
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My Dear Mr. Welles: War of the Worlds Fan and Hate Mail

The Screen Arts Mavericks & Makers Collection at the University of Michigan Library preserves 1,344 letters sent to the New York City office of Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre in the aftermath o…

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