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Books and Articles
Antrim, Benajah Jay. Pantography, or Universal drawings, in the comparison of their natural and arbitrary laws, with the nature and importance of pasigraphy, as the science of letters; being particularly adapted to the orthoepic accuracy requisite in international correspondences, and the study of foreign languages. With specimens of more than fifty different alphabets, including a concise description of almost all others known generally throughout the world. Philadelphia, Published by the author, and for sale by Thomas Cowperthwait & Co., 1843. LC catalog record. Available online through HathiTrust External.
Davis, Lynn Ann, and David W. Forbes. “B. Jay Antrim: American Daguerreian in the Hawaiian Islands,” History of Photography 25, no. 3 (Autumn 2001), pp. 252-258. Published online 19 January 2015 Taylor & Francis Online. Includes illustrations of two portrait daguerreotypes and select wood engravings by Antrim from daguerreotypes of landscape scenes of Hawaiian islands, and excerpts from a family transcript of his autobiographical essay “In the Days of Kamehameha IV.” Available online through Taylor and Francis Online External.
Palmquist, Peter. Pioneer Photographers of the Far West, 1840-1865: A Biographical Dictionary. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2000. LC catalog record.
Pint, John. “Journal tells tale of 1849 trek across Mexico, from Tampico to Mazatlán,” Mexico News (posted June 8, 2018). https://mexiconewsdaily.com/mexico-living/journal-tells-tale-of-1849-trek-across-mexico/ External
Digital Collections, Guides, and Maps
Library of Congress Public Domain Get Archive: Mexico, Historic Map(s) Library of Congress
Parallel Histories: Spain, the United States, and the American Frontier
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (prints, posters, photographs of Mexico architecture and history)
Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Perspectives
The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures