Archive: 2025 (2 Posts)

Refined by: (Author) Julie Miller; (Year) 2025

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

January 30, 2025

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.

Posted in: Digital Collections, Hispanic and Latino History, International History

Print shows a slightly elevated view of Wall Street and Federal Hall as it appeared circa 1791, with pedestrians on the sidewalk and in the street, and Trinity Church in the background.

George Washington and the Federal Workforce

January 16, 2025

Posted by: Julie Miller

Applications for federal jobs fill thirty-two volumes in the George Washington Papers at the Library of Congress. Each one tells a story.

Posted in: Digital Collections, Early America, Letters, Politics

Refined by: (Author) Julie Miller; (Year) 2025