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Street View - Late 19th Early 20th Century style

Album Description

The Geography and Maps Division of the Library of Congress does a wonderful job of Tweeting out interesting maps in their collection. I’ve never visited Holyoke, Massachusetts however this particular bird’s eye view with its artwork and detail Tweeted out by @LOCMaps drew me in.

Then recently in the Library of Congress blog Minerva’s Kaleidoscope Resources for Kids & Families there was an interesting post Zooming in On Panoramic Maps explaining the history and detailed creation of Panoramic Maps.

“In order to enrich their maps with detail, panoramic cartographers spent time studying cities and towns from the vantage point of nearby hills as well as from the street level.”

So taking a closer look at the Holyoke map by zooming in, then using digital 3D maps to find a specific building that remains today, I explored the history history of that locale.

Observation is a key skill and as students spend more time locally in neighborhoods an observation map making lesson where they can add to or draw out details gives them practice with that skill. 

Numbered in this album are steps they might take (with the Holyoke Map as a model) before they explore their own neighborhoods/cities and add delightful details to their own Panoramic maps.

1. Select a Panoramic map of Interest - a Bird's eye view of Holyoke, Mass. : 1877

Teaching Notes

Start by selecting one of the Panoramic or bird’s eye view maps in the Library of Congress. The collection also provides an interesting account of these maps and who made them. 

https://loc.gov/collections/panoramic-maps/about-this-collection/

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/84695720/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Bailey, H. H. (Howard Heston), 1836-1878.
Hazen, J. C.
C.H. Vogt (Firm)
Created / Published: New York : H.H. Bailey, [1877]
Subject Headings: -  Holyoke (Mass.)--Aerial views
-  United States--Massachusetts--Holyoke
Notes: -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
-  Includes index to points of interest.
-  Vault
-  PM3
-  Acquisitions control no. 64-83
Repository: Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu
Digital Id: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3764h.pm003001

2. Research the Location

Teaching Notes

Research using a 3D Map (in this example I’m using Apple Maps) to find to approximate same location.

3. Place the two maps side-by-side

Teaching Notes

Using a slide, take a screen shot of the current 3D map and the primary source map and place them side by side on a slide (or printed out paper) to look for a point of interest that you’ll research.

Reference note

Two screen shots on a slide

4. Zoom in on an interesting structure on the primary source map.

Teaching Notes

Zoom in on an interesting structure on the primary source map and take a close up screen shot of that structure.

Reference note

Screen shot

5. Find the structure on the digital 3D map

Teaching Notes

Now take a screen shot of the same structure zoomed in on the digital 3D map.

6. Place the two structures side-by-side

Teaching Notes

On a slide or printed out on paper place the two zoomed in screen shots of the structure you selected side-by-side to compare and contrast.

Reference note

Screen shots of structures

7. Locate the name of the structure

Teaching Notes

From the primary source maps you might find an index that tells you the name of the structure.

8a. Research for more information on the structure

Teaching Notes

See if you can find your primary source structure in photographs

Holyoke, Massachusetts - Scenes. The Canal

8a. Research for more information on the structure

8b. Research more images - Paper mills, Holyoke, Mass.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2016794867/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant
Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
Created / Published: [between 1900 and 1906]
Subject Headings: -  Paper industry
-  Rivers
-  Industrial facilities
-  United States--Massachusetts--Holyoke
-  United States--Connecticut River
Genre: Dry plate negatives
Notes: -  Detroit Publishing Co. no. 017764.
-  Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: det 4a11999 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/det.4a11999

8c. Research more images - American Thread Co., Holyoke, Mass.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2007661041/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Haines Photo Co. (Conneaut, Ohio), copyright claimant
Created / Published: c1909.
Subject Headings: -  Thread industry
-  Industrial facilities
-  United States--Massachusetts--Holyoke
Notes: -  J135982 U.S. Copyright Office
-  Copyright deposit; Haines Photo Co.; December 15, 1909; DLC/PP-1910:43940.
-  Copyright claimant's address: Conneaut, O.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital Id: pan 6a06167 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pan.6a06167

8d. More research - Old factory buildings along one of several industrial canals in Holyoke, a once-thriving central-Massachusetts community known as Paper City for its many mills and factories that made paper and the equipment that processes it

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2019690101/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer
Created / Published: 2019-05-19.
Subject Headings: -  United States--Massachusetts--Holyoke
-  America
-  Paper City
-  Connecticut River
-  Holyoke factories
-  Holyoke canals
Genre: Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020
Notes: -  Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
-  During the late 19th century the city, drawing power from falls on the Connecticut River that flows through town, Holyoke produced an estimated 80 percent of the writing paper used in the United States and was home to the largest paper, silk, and alpaca wool mills in the world.
-  Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2019; (DLC/PP-2019:017)
-  Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: highsm 57677 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.57677

9. Find the history of the structure - [Untitled photo, possibly related to: Mill worker's children. Holyoke, Massachusetts]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017820812/

Reference note

Contributor Names: Collier, John, Jr., 1913-1992, photographer
Created / Published: 1941 Sept.
Subject Headings: -  United States--Massachusetts--Hampden County--Holyoke
Genre: Nitrate negatives
Notes: -  Title and other information from a possibly related negative. Image came to Library of Congress untitled. (There was no caption for this image in the FSA/OWI shelflist.)
-  Appears to be related to negative LC-USF34-081001-E https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017820815/
-  Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
-  More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
-  Temp. note: usf34batch8
-  Film copy on SIS roll 16, frame 1027.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: fsa 8c33278 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c33278