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View selected historic maps and aerial photographs, mixed with current data from Google in a Google Maps viewer. The "crown jewel" is a full-city mosaic of the 1942 Philadelphia Land Use Maps.
tagged athenaeum google_maps google_mashup history philadelphia sandborn pacscl maps land_use
by jn
...on 15-JUL-08
Fire Insurance Maps for Pennsylvania for the early parts of the twentieth century.
belongs to HSPV Other project
tagged history maps pennsylvania philadelphia
by laallen
...and 2 other people
...on 08-FEB-08
The Geohistory Network includes scanned images of historic fire insurance atlases and directories for Philadelphia. It is a pilot project of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) to develop a web-based repository of geographically organized historical information about Philadelphia, its geography, its buildings, and its people.
belongs to HSPV Other project
tagged atlases census history maps philadelphia
by laallen
...and 1 other person
...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 geohistory hexamer philadelphia maps history gis phillymaps places
by laallen
...on 30-NOV-07
Index to Aerial photos of the Philadelphia area taken between 1924 and 1960 held at the Library Company and (some) at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
belongs to Philadelphia Maps and Geospatial Data project
tagged aerials historic_maps maps places philadelphia history
by laallen
...on 01-NOV-07
This is an effort to bring together some resources -- images, documents, tools, and links -- for pursuing historical information about place in the five-county Philadelphia area: Bucks, Chester, Delaware. Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties. The project has been building incrementally, as opportunities have permitted, since 1997. The overarching idea is to use new media to more effectively disseminate information about place, to enhance cross-institutional access to documentary materials of this sort, to better connect people with the history of their environment, and to thus enrich their lives here.
belongs to Philadelphia Maps and Geospatial Data project
tagged architecture geohistory places philadelphia maps history
by laallen
...and 1 other person
...on 12-JUL-07
Daly, John Edward. . Genealogy of Philadelphia County subdivisions / by John Daly, Archival examiner, and Allen Weinberg, City archivist. Philadelphia, Dept. of Records, [1966].
Call#: Van Pelt Library G3824.P5 1966 D3
Call#: Van Pelt Library G3824.P5 1966 D3
"This interactive map shows some of the places "where imaginary New Yorkers lived, worked, played, drank, walked and looked at ducks." View the locations on the map, or browse by author or title. Some of the almost 100 book titles represented include "The Invisible Man," "Harriet the Spy," "The Great Gatsby," and "James and the Giant Peach." From a 2005 New York Times Book Review feature." (via LII)
"map plots "the history of 20th century music on the London Underground map devised by Harry Beck in 1933." Lines are renamed for music genres such as soul, reggae, pop, rock, jazz, hip-hop, electronica, and classical. Includes an article explaining how the map was plotted and many reader comments. From the Guardian Unlimited, the online companion to the British newspaper The Guardian." (via LII)