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Software, E-Resource Transcription dataset from the Benajah Jay Antrim journals, Manuscript Division By the People transcription campaign title : Journey across Mexico, Benajah Jay Antrim journals and sketchbooks

About this Item

Title

  • Transcription dataset from the Benajah Jay Antrim journals, Manuscript Division

Other Title

  • By the People transcription campaign title : Journey across Mexico, Benajah Jay Antrim journals and sketchbooks

Summary

  • This dataset is an export of transcriptions created by volunteers participating in the Library of Congress crowdsourcing program By the People (https://crowd.loc.gov) campaign Journey Across Mexico: Benajah Jay Antrim Journals and Sketchbooks for 517 images from the Benajah Jay Antrim Journals digital collection. It contains volunteer-created and -reviewed text, volunteer-created tags, digital collections metadata, and metadata representing the arrangement of the items in the By the People platform, Concordia. The Journey Across Mexico: Benajah Jay Antrim Journals and Sketchbooks campaign was fully transcribed and reviewed between January 29 and February 2, 2025.
  • The dataset includes transcriptions and data generated from the pages in the By the People campaign Journey Across Mexico: Benajah Jay Antrim Journals and Sketchbooks https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/antrim/). The campaign consisted of all then-available online images of digitized content from the Benajah Jay Antrim Journals digital collection (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000127) transcribed in their entirety. The collection consists of five volumes - three journals and two sketchbooks - chronicling the 1849 journey of Benajah Jay Antrim, a young mathematical instrument maker, across Mexico to California. He travelled in a guided party by pack horse that started from Tampico on February 21, 1849, and arrived at Mazatlán on April 17, 1849. See the Benajah Jay Antrim Journals digital collection (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000127) for all available online items for this collection, as well as contextual information, such as related bibliographic resources.
  • This dataset includes: 2023514955.zip - a zip file containing a CSV file and a README file and antrim_2025-04-07.csv - a .CSV containing campaign, project, item, itemID, asset, and asset status metadata, as well as an image URL, the volunteer-created transcriptions, and volunteer-created tags. This .CSV is the direct export of the Journey Across Mexico: Benajah Jay Antrim Journals and Sketchbooks campaign.
  • Note: This dataset may contain UNICODE characters or lengthy transcriptions which may display incorrectly in some spreadsheet editors.

Names

  • Antrim, Benajah Jay
  • By the People (Program), compiler

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : By the People, Library of Congress, 2025.

Headings

  • -  Antrim, Benajah Jay--Diaries
  • -  Antrim, Benajah Jay--Illustrations
  • -  Americans--Mexico--Diaries
  • -  Mazatlán (Sinaloa, Mexico)--Description and travel
  • -  San Luis Potosí (Mexico)--Description and travel
  • -  Tampico (Tamaulipas, Mexico)--Description and travel
  • -  Guadalajara (Mexico)--Description and travel
  • -  Mexico--Description and travel
  • -  Mexico--Geography--19th century
  • -  Mexico--Social conditions
  • -  Architecture--Mexico--19th century
  • -  Landscapes--Mexico--Pictorial works

Genre

  • Data sets

Notes

  • -  "Dataset created 2025-04-07."--README file.
  • -  Collection material in English and Spanish.
  • -  Title from README file.

Medium

  • 1 online resource (dataset)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • F1215

Repository

  • s-Online Electronic Resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023514955

Rights Advisory

  • The text in this dataset was created by volunteers and can be used in many different ways. It is subject to no known copyright restrictions and is free to use and re-use.

Online Format

  • compressed data

Additional Metadata Formats

Rights & Access

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Digital Collections Management and Services Division

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Antrim, Benajah Jay. Transcription dataset from the Benajah Jay Antrim journals, Manuscript Division. composeds by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2025. Software, E-Resource. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023514955/.

APA citation style:

Antrim, B. J. (2025) Transcription dataset from the Benajah Jay Antrim journals, Manuscript Division. By The People Iler, comp Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress. [Software, E-Resource] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2023514955/.

MLA citation style:

Antrim, Benajah Jay. Transcription dataset from the Benajah Jay Antrim journals, Manuscript Division. comp by By The People Iler Washington, D.C.: By the People, Library of Congress, 2025. Software, E-Resource. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2023514955/>.