Announcing New Anywhere Adventures Locations

February 18, 2026Written\ Created \ Syndicated by Taofeek Folami

Anywhere Adventures is a mobile-first website which brings local history to users through comics and travel logs. In the first year, 2025-2026 Innovator in Residence Vivian Li developed stories for three locations: Seattle, Washington, Chicago, Illinois, and Southeast Wyoming. This guest post is written by Vivian, and is a follow-up to a post asking readers to nominate two additional communities for inclusion in the project.

Thank you all for your excellent nominations! It’s official, two new locations are coming to Anywhere Adventures in 2026:

The Gulf Coast along Highway 90, running from New Orleans, Louisiana through Pascagoula, Mississippi, to Mobile, Alabama.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Thank you to Angel S. Padgett and Lisa for your nominations!

These communities have rich and varied histories, and the Library of Congress’s digital collections from these areas reflect that diversity. I’ve included some loc.gov items, and the search queries I used for each area, below – so you can dive into the collections yourselves! These items are just a small sampling of what can be found online.

I’m also excited to announce that the stories for these new communities will be crowd-sourced, and we are accepting local history story submissions from readers like you! Stories must be between 300-500 words long and include at least one loc.gov collection item that connects back to these new communities. Submissions are open until Friday, April 10th, 2026, and you can submit your ideas via our story form. We’re accepting stories from members of these communities and readers across the U.S.

We’ll notify you if your story is selected, and if chosen, it will be transformed into a comic and published on the Anywhere Adventures site. The Library offers access to a wide range of materials showcasing items, events, ideas and perspectives from the last 250 years and beyond. For more information, read the Library’s statement about its historical collections and rights-free materials.

If you’re not sure where to get started on doing your own research, we’ll be hosting an online research workshop to share paths for finding cool items and telling interesting stories. Register for the story research workshop on Wednesday, March 4th from 6 pm – 7 pm ET.

Gulf Coast– along Highway 90 from New Orleans through Pascagoula to Mobile

Location: New Orleans, LA

Research query: https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=location:louisiana&q=new+orleans, LA

A black and white photograph of a horse pulling a wooden cart. There is a man in a hat and vest standing on the cart alongside metal canisters of milk. — New Orleans milk cart, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Detroit Publishing Co., publisher. Published
between 1900 and 1910.

Location: Gulfport, MS

Research Query: https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=location:mississippi&q=gulfport

Black and white photograph of a steamship. Dock workers load the ships with large wooden barrels. — Steamer loading resin, Gulfport, Miss. Detroit Publishing Co., publisher.c1906.

Location: Biloxi, MS

Research Query: https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=location:mississippi&q=biloxi

Photograph showing small children, a few of them barefoot. — All these are shrimp-pickers in Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Company. Youngest in photo are five and eight years of age. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer, February 1911.

Location: Ocean Springs, MS

Research Query: https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=location:mississippi&q=ocean+springs

Colorized print showing a large bayou with a pier. There's a wooden covered building at the end of the pier. — Site of Old Fort Bayou, Ocean Springs, Miss. Detroit Photographic Co., publisher, c1901.

Location: Pascagoula, MS

Research Query: https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=location:mississippi&q=pascagoula

Black and white photograph of a woman welder. — Mrs. Jennie Mae Turner, welder at the Ingalls shipyard, Pascagoula, Miss. 1943.

Location: Mobile Alabama

Research Query: https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=location:alabama&q=mobile

Color map depicting the Gulf coast states, and with various intersecting lines and shapes drawn in red around the city of Mobile. — Geometrical proof of the superiority of the port of Mobile.Commercial club. Mobile, Ala. 1891.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Research query: https://www.loc.gov/search/?fa=location:pennsylvania&q=pittsburgh

A black and white photograph of a blacksmith forging an item in an open flame. — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Blacksmith shop. Collier, John, Jr., 1913-1992, photographer. November 1942.

Color drawing of an aerial view of the city of Pittsburgh. — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1902. Morrisville, Pa., T. M. Fowler & James B. Moyer. 1902.

Black and white hand-drawn architectural renderings of buildings in Pittsburgh. — Buildings designed by Gilbert and others. Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934, architect. Between 1904 and 1935.

Black and white photograph of the overhead view of a river boat. — Riverboat. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer. June 1941.

Black and white stereograph photo of two rivers joining with the city of Pittsburgh in the background. — The Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers Join at Pittsburgh, Pa. 1926.

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