A Journey through Mexico

Benajah Jay Antrim (b. 1821)
Sketchbook [documenting Mexico and California]
Watercolor
1849 (14D.1)

Benajah Jay Antrim (b. 1821)
Sketchbook [documenting Mexico and California]
Watercolor
1849 (14D.2)

Benajah Jay Antrim (b. 1821)
Sketchbook [documenting Mexico and California], 1849 (14D.3)
Watercolor
Manuscript Division

Benajah Jay Antrim (b. 1821)
Journal [documenting Mexico and California], 1849
Pen and ink
Manuscript Division (14B.4.1- 2)

Benajah Jay Antrim was a professional maker of mathematical instruments in Philaldephia, Pennsylvania. He was one of the forty men of the Camargo Company who went to California via Mexico on January 1849, after the successful termination of the War with Mexico.

Antrim was a gifted watercolorist and left sketchbooks and several journals describing places in Mexico and California. Shown here is the front courtyard of the Cathedral of Guadalajara Built from 1561-1618, it was the most authentically gothic building constructed in Mexico. Many of its features, including several of towers, its choir stall, and main altar, were destroyed by the time of Antrim's rendering, but its facade remained intact.

Benajah Jay Antrim (b. 1821)
Pages from his Journal [documenting San Louis Potasi, Mexico], 1849
Pen and ink
Manuscript Division (14B.4.3 - 6)