Category Archives: Maps

New Work with Census Data in GIS

Posted on December 12, 2012 by LaDale Winling

NHGIS, one of the digital efforts of the Minnesota Population Center, is totally wonderful. Since I learned about it as a graduate student, it has been an essential source when I need demographic data from the U.S. Census and to … Continue reading →

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HOLC Maps

Posted on July 29, 2012 by LaDale Winling

At least since Ken Jackson’s 1980 article in the Journal of Urban History, historians have been fascinated by the security maps created by the security maps created by the Home Ownership Loan Corporation and the process of state-sponsored segregation in … Continue reading →

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Evanston Map

Posted on August 1, 2009 by LaDale Winling

The story of this Evanston map restoration is interesting on two counts. First, for the really great restoration process — taken from a curator’s experience with Japanese screen restoration. Second, for indicating how central Northwestern University was to the development … Continue reading →

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