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This is a guide created to help students in Historic Preservation learn about the resources available for studying Philadelphia places.
tagged GIS historic_preservation history philadelphia research_guides ppage
by laallen
...on 07-MAR-08
The NHGIS is a project at the University of Minnesota designed to collect GIS data for the United States at the smallest possible Geographic level. Currently the geographic boundary files include states and counties from 1790 to the present and census tracts from 1910 to the present.
The Social Explorer produces maps and reports of US Census Tract level data from 1940-2000. Using high quality maps and data, they make available the full contents of the tract data for the United States for the full period. The data can also be exported as excel spreadsheets for easy reuse.
belongs to HSPV Other project
tagged GIS census history stats tracts
by laallen
...and 3 other people
...on 08-FEB-08
Includes beautiful maps and atlases of the Hexamer Volumes from the 1850's through Philadelphia Land Use maps 1960's.
belongs to Historic Preservation Data project
tagged buildings phillymaps places philadelphia gis hexamer maps history geohistory
by laallen
...on 30-NOV-07
This blog is dedicated to updates on the research project, Mapping the DuBois Philadelphia Negro. This project is being funded by the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation and National Endowment for Humanities and is based out of Penn’s School of Design. Our goal is to recreate the foot survey W.E.B. DuBois conducted for his 1899 classic, The Philadelphia Negro, using GIS. Eventually, we will develop a website with interactive mapping, research results, and teaching materials.
The Valley of the Shadow is a digital archive of primary sources that document the lives of people in Augusta County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania, during the era of the American Civil War. Here you may explore thousands of original documents that allow you to see what life was like during the Civil War for the men and women of Augusta and Franklin.
This section shows the routes of battles of union and confederate soldiers in the area.
The Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System is a unique digital collection of information about Britain's localities as they have changed over time. Information comes from census reports, historical gazetteers, travellers' tales and historic maps, assembled into a whole that is much more than the sum of its parts.