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Archive: January 2025 (5 Posts)

Desert landscape with road at left, gray storm clouds above with blue sky. showing between them. In foreground two men in red shirts with donkeys and carts.

New “By the People” Crowdsourcing Transcription Campaign: A Journey Across Mexico in 1849: The Journals and Sketchbooks of Benajah Jay Antrim

Posted by: Julie Miller

Benajah Jay Antrim’s journals and sketchbooks document an American artist’s journey across Mexico in 1849. As of January 29, 2025, you can volunteer to transcribe them as part of the “By the People” crowdsourcing project from the Library of Congress.

Arizona’s Hassayampa River as it passes beneath a highway bridge, looking modern and not too mysterious. Clayton B. Fraser, Hassayampa Bridge at old U.S. Highway 80, Arlington, Arizona, circa 1993.

Of Note: Hassayampers Unite!

Posted by: Josh Levy

In June 1910, a few days after President William Howard Taft signed legislation allowing the Arizona and New Mexico territories to move toward statehood, a strange telegram arrived in the White House, which reveals the story of a river that once buzzed with legend.