Old Eighth Ward Street View Swipe Map
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Description
An interactive web app / map that allows the viewer to swipe and compare 1901 map with modern day aerial photo of the same location. Contains street view showing historical photographs of the Eighth Ward / Capitol Park between 1890 and 1930. The visitor can search by address, browse households to view residents, and read stories about the Old Eighth Ward, the neighborhood in the shadow of the capitol. Geolocator allows mobile users to locate themselves while viewing the map.
Publication Date
2025
Document Type
Map
Keywords
Map, Eighth Ward, Capitol Park, Commonwealth Monument Project, Digital Harrisburg, Messiah University, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
Disciplines
African American Studies | United States History | Urban Studies and Planning
Recommended Citation
Digital Harrisburg, "Old Eighth Ward Street View Swipe Map" (2025). Interactive Maps of Harrisburg. 1.
https://mosaic.messiah.edu/maps/1
Comments
The maps and the data they contain were developed as a collaboration between faculty and students at Messiah University and Harrisburg University of Science and Technology. The Historical Society of Dauphin County generously provided JPEG scans of the entire 1901 Harrisburg Title Company Atlas (the layer visible as the historical map of the city). Messiah students created a complete database of the population in 1900, and GIS students from Messiah and Harrisburg University created building polygons and individual census record points in GIS mapped to the level of individual properties. (For ready-made static maps of the city and its population at different points in time, visit the datasets page)
This item was developed and published in collaboration with the IIPT-Commonwealth Monument Project (2018-2020), with support and funding from Messiah University's Center for Public Humanities and the Council of Independent College's Humanities Research for the Public Good Grant Program.