Mapping the Population of the Pennsylvania State Capital in 1900

Rachel Carey, History Student, Messiah College

Rachel Morris, Environmental Engineering Student, Messiah College

Dan Stolyarov, Geospatial Technology Student, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

Nicole Ernst, Associate Professor of Geospatial Technology, HACC

David Pettegrew, Associate Professor of History, Messiah College

Albert Sarvis, Assistant Professor of Geospatial Technology and Project Management, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology

Jeff Erikson, Assistant Professor of Biology, Messiah CollegeCentral PA GIS Day, November 19, 2014

City Beautiful

Mira Lloyd Dock

New Steps to the Susquehanna

New Capitol Building

The U.S. Census for 1900 Meets GIS

City Social: From This…

City Social: To This

City Social: Some Problems

Unfamiliar Jobs

City Social: Some Problems

Reading the Handwriting

Digital Harrisburg: GIS

The Base Map

The Base Map: Street View

Ten Wards

Residence Shapefiles

Create Features

Residence Shapefiles

Label Attributes

Residence Shapefiles

Residences!

Harrisburg: Look Familiar?

The Market

The Capitol

9455 Shapefiles later….

Merged and Linked!

Categories

Occupation

Categories

Occupation

Architect

Brick Maker

Plumber

Queries

Literacy

Queries

Literacy

From the dusty shelves to a file server

City Engineers Office

Atlas Storage

Georeferenced Images and Geocoded Census Data

Along came the residence polygons

Residence centroids joined to census records

36,234 census individuals mapped to buildings

Multiple co-located records per residence

Continuing Collaboration and Development

Next Steps

Visualization Distribute individual records within residences Pattern analysis of attributes such as race, occupation, literacy, etc

Sharing Online web mapping and storytelling

Trend Analysis Subsequent decades of census data Demographic distribution trends

Multiple Property National Register Maps

The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic resources worthy of preservation

The City Beautiful Nomination: Riverfront Park Reservoir Park Italian Lake Bellevue Park Cameron and Paxtang Parkways City Island Mulberry Street Viaduct Wildwood Lake

The Manning Map – Parks and Boulevards

Former and Existing Conditions

Then and Now maps were created

Maps contained: Historical and current aerial photography Latitude/longitude coordinates Historical and current photographs

Follow-up Sessions

Mapping the Population of the Pennsylvania State Capital in 1900 Room 207

Exploring the Proposed City Beautiful National Register Nomination with Pictometry Online (POL) Room 211