Led by Cleveland Museum of Natural History curators Dr. Ebeth Sawchuk and Dr. Nicole Burt, this project focuses on restoring personhood and identity to the individuals in the Hamann-Todd Human Osteological Collection. This historical documented skeletal collection is made up of people who died in Cleveland, largely between 1910 and 1939, and were sent to Western Reserve University's (now Case Western Reserve University’s) Medical School for study. Although CWRU still holds the legal title to this collection, it was rehoused at the Museum on permanent loan in the 1960s and is now cared for by Museum anthropology staff. This project seeks to reconstruct these individuals’ life histories through archival research and related digitization and data-integration efforts, and support ethical stewardship of this collection moving forward. For more information on the Hamann-Todd Biography Project, visit our science blog.