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Posted by: Neely Tucker
In 1849, a year after the end of the Mexican War, amateur American artist Benajah Jay Antrim and several others set out across Mexico. He recorded the journey in three diaries and two sketchbooks, creating a illustrated travelogue, a kind of time capsule that captured relatively undeveloped parts of rural Mexico, that's preserved at the Library.
Posted in: By the People, LCM, Manuscripts
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Volunteers have been working over the past five years to transcribe the Library’s manuscripts of Walt Whitman, one of the nation’s most iconic poets, from three major collections. Can you help proofread the final 4,000 pages? This June, the Library is hoping you'll do just that as we celebrate Pride month.
Posted in: By the People, Civil War, LGBTQ, Manuscripts, Poetry, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Julie Centofanti, a biology student at Youngstown State University, started a club at her university in 2020 to transcribe historical documents included in the Library’s By the People project. A longer version of this interview appears on the Signal blog. How did you find out about By the People? I’m a member of the Youngstown …
Posted in: By the People, Library Work and Employees, Manuscripts, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library holds the papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, one of the nation's most influential landscape architects, who also was an influential writer and civic planner. The Library is marking the 200th anniversary of his birth with an exhibit and an online transcription campaign.
Posted in: By the People, Exhibitions, Writers
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library’s newest crowdsourcing campaign, American Creativity: Early Copyright Title Pages, is now online and ready for your amusement, education and transcription. It features the great (and not so great) ideas of yesteryear in copyright applications from 1790 to 1870, which recorded the young nation’s attempts to capitalize on the present and transform the future.
Posted in: By the People, Copyright, Rare Book and Special Collections
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Herencia, the Library's Spanish-Language crowdsourcing project, wraps up a very successful first year, with more than 800 volunteers transcribing rare documents from a unique Law Library collection.
Posted in: By the People, Herencia
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Transcription of the Library's Mary Church Terrell Papers was selected as the 2021 Douglass Day service project by the Colored Conventions Project, and you can take part via the Library's By the People crowdsourcing program.
Posted in: African American History, By the People
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's newest crowdsourcing campaign are the vast notebooks of Frederick Hockley, a 19th century British Spiritualist who believed he could communicate with the dead.
Posted in: By the People, Manuscripts, Rare Book and Special Collections
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Don’t let byline fool you; the wonderful staff at By the People wrote a good chunk of this piece about their latest crowdsourcing campaign. It’s fascinating stuff. The trailblazing history of the Blackwell family, tireless campaigners for the rights of women and the abolition of slavery, forms the newest crowdsourcing campaign by the Library’s By …
Posted in: By the People