“This site provides an alternative way of browsing the SFPL’s incredible San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection. Its goal is to help you discover the history behind the places you see every day.” -discovered via Coudal
This is a fascinating interactive map that incorporates decades of pictures of San Francisco. Prepare to spend a long time there!
via BuzzFeed
“An interesting map in the Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant and Vulgar Words (1860) … showing the street markings of professional beggars.”
via The Cat’s Meat Shop
We are a new collaboration in the Spatial History Lab, working to map prostitution in Philadelphia in the nineteen teens using an array of unique primary sources and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. We are creating a digital map of Philadelphia ca. 1915, to map a sample of approximately 1,000 Philadelphia police arrest records for disorderly street walking from 1912 to 1918.
~ Stanford University, Spatial History Project
NYC.gov has recently launched a Google-esque interactive aerial map of New York in 1924. … This is a before and after history of New York City told by comparing aerial photography from 1924 and 2008. Much has changed in 84 years, and much has stayed the same. Here are some examples and observations.
