The Center for Digital Research inwards the Humanities is attempting to map who lived inwards 1820's Washington D.C.. Their interactive map Early Washington, D.C. uses information from the 1822 metropolis directory to map the names, occupations in addition to homes of people living inwards the metropolis inwards the early on business office of the 19th century. Using the map yous tin explore who was living where inwards 1820's D.C. in addition to what jobs they did.
The 1822 metropolis directory includes details on the habitation in addition to business organization addresses of most 2,000 people living in addition to working inwards Washington D.C.. The 1820 census recorded 13,000 people living inwards the city, thence the map shows a petty over 10% of the population inwards 1820's D.C.. 'Early Washington D.C.' shows the locations of the city's residents on exceed of a vintage map of D.C.. This map is S. A. Elliot's 1822 Plan of the City of Washington from the Library of Congress Maps Collection.
'Early Washington D.C.' was created equally business office of the 'O Say Can You See: Early Washington D.C., Law in addition to Family' project. This projection is documenting the challenges to slavery inwards early on Washington D.C.. As business office of this projection it is collecting in addition to digitizing documents from the early on 19th century, including the metropolis directories.
If yous taste learning most how people lived in addition to run inwards the 19th century thence yous mightiness too hold out interested inwards the New York Public Library's NYC Space/Time Directory. The library are calling this projection 'a digital time-travel service for New York City'. The projection is using historical maps, photographs, newspapers, business organization directories, literary references, census data, in addition to much to a greater extent than inwards social club to attention practise 'a searchable atlas of New York City's past'.
