(Science and) A Sense of Place: Learning where we are
in the world.
jc: The History of Location
Questions:
what would we want to know?
what's interesting to know about a place?
where are answers to those q's:
Make believe: a local histy project w/ students -->Ppt
A resource:
Lens (why made?)
ex: Deed
-- in series, UP HSPV: http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/uphp/proj-04.html
Broadly:
-- Maps generally
LC: http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/lcmaps.html
Rumsey: http://www.davidrumsey.com/
imagine economic forces
-- RE atlases
ex: H&L: http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/hlatlas/hl_intro.html
ex: PhilaGeoHistory: http://www.philageohistory.org/geohistory/index.cfm
ex: Harriton
Closer, at the time:
Phila ex: City directories
(& reverse, 1861): http://www.philageohistory.org/citydir/
-- Bldg process records
PAB: http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/index.cfm
-- Fire ins recs
ex: FFI: http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/ffi/ffidefault.htm
ex: Ph Contribp: http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/contributionship/search.cfm
-- Other:
ex: Briefs ot Title: http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/archx/05-600/proj/p2/jmc/BriefsIndex.html
Later, retrospective evidence:
-- Watercolors
PiT, Taylors: http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/uphp/taylocs.html
-- Photogs
ex: Maine
ex: Sub hses: http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/wh/whhome.htm
ex, City: http://PhillyHistory.org/PhotoArchive/default.aspx
Survival: read as palimpsest
People:
Names to personal stores, to group traejctories, narrative
through geo narratives, livelihoods, group membership
City dirs: http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/frdr.html#cds
Censuses:
ex, NYC: http://www.rootdig.com/1880census/1880_chester_arthur.jpg
ex: http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/frdr.html#cns
Recollections, oral history
1-2:30: work in teams, w/ roving help
3:00: show'n tell, leads, questions