Spring 2023 Harvard Map Collection

Screen recording of New York Public Library app OldNYC

OldNYC: Mapping Historic Photographs at the NYPL.
Diagram of multiple GIS layers corresponding spatially to one another

Screenshot from 1880 census 1880 census from Archive.org .

Comparison of 1890 atlas to today ArcGIS Map comparing 1890 atlas to today.

Picture of Belle’s old house, on 4 Folsom Ave Belle’s house in college.

Picture of the City of Boston reading room City of Boston Archives Reading Room.

Picture of a real estate atlas open, it is a large book 19th century insurance atlas, open to a plate of downtown Boston.

GIF of the vision zero data page on City of Boston’s data portal Analyze Boston , Boston’s open data portal.

Screenshot of the vision zero data as a table Vision Zero dataset, open as a table.

Screenshot of vision zero data as crowded points Bike crash data displayed visually as individual points in GIS software.

Map of bike crashes shows patterns better

Introduction to GIS workshop in the library calendar.
GIS Research Strategies workshop in the library calendar.

Humanities + critical thinking

American Geographical Society Library
Image of chicago businesses in David Rumsey Map Collection
Real Estate maps of Chicago from 1929 in the David Rumsey map collection.
Screen recording of student Paige Lee's data visualization in D3.js
Mapping project by student Paige Lee, created in D3.js.
Read about Paige's project on our blog.

Screen recording of LandgrabU scrollytelling interactive

Land-Grab Univerisities interactive digital project.
Screen recording exploring redlining maps on Mapping Inequality website
Mapping Inequality project via the University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab.

Map of South America showing illegal mining activity

Mapping project by student Luisa Shido, created in QGIS.

Screen capture of a map of Boston from Map of Boston from 1743 .

Map made by student assistants who went on to use GIS and data processing in job GIS heatmap of density of restaurants in Boston.

Historical Polish data from the 1910s in GIS format.
Screen capture from the historical article this data originated from.
Table from American Political Science Review.
Screenshot of survey quotes from workshop

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