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Harrisburg’s City Beautiful Movement:Mapping the Growth and Transformation of thePennsylvania State Capital

David Pettegrew, Associate Professor ofHistory, Messiah College

Rachel Carey, History Student, Messiah College

Jeff Erikson, Assistant Professor of Biology,Messiah College

Rachel Morris, Environmental EngineeringStudent, Messiah College

Albert Sarvis, Assistant Professor of GeospatialTechnology and Project Management,Harrisburg University of Science andTechnology

Dan Stolyarov, Geospatial Technology Student,Harrisburg University of Science andTechnology

Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Faculty Research, Bucknell University 14-16 November 20



City Beautiful

Mira Lloyd Dock

New Steps to theSusquehanna

New



Community Interest meets Information Fluency



Archival Work



Omeka and WordPress Sites



The U.S. Census for 1900 Meets GIS



Data Entry



City Social: Primary Source Analysis



City Social: Data Analysis



Student Collaboration and Public Humanities

Digital History Students:“For me, the best part of the coentire project come together. B work together on our Omeka sfruits of our labor, as well as knare going to benefit from our wentire project worth the work. Ea lot of work, finishing the projeverything worthwhile.”“If everyone could see, how I’vthis city can look like if its resi

together, the City Beautiful Mostarted in 2013, would get the sdeserves. Now driving throughall of the little things, like the sthe steps along the banks of theand now I feel a special connecBuilding and I am in awe of it



Professor Erikson’s Class: 1901 Harrisburg Title Comp



The Base Map with Ten Wards



Residence Shapefiles

Label Attributes



From the dusty shelves to a file server

City Engineers Office

Atlas Storage



Georeferenced Images and Geocoded Census Data



9455 Shapefiles later….



Merged and Linked!



Along came the residence polygons



Residence centroids joined to census records



36,234 census individuals mapped to buildings



Multiple co-located records per residence



Continuing Collaboration and Development



Toward a Digital Harrisburg

The Market

The Capitol



Categories

Occupation



Categories

Occupa

Brick Maker

Plumber



Queries

Literacy



Next Steps

Visualization

Distribute individual records within residencesPattern analysis of attributes such as race, occupation, literacy, etc

SharingOnline web mapping and storytelling

Trend AnalysisSubsequent decades of census dataDemographic distribution trends



Student Engagement

Rachel Carey, History Major, Messiah College: “Throughout this experience, those involvedhave gained knowledge about digital history, and more importantly, firsthand experience in historical resear

only has the History Department advanced the study of digital history at Messiah College, but the School ofHumanities has launched a new Digital Humanities initiative. Most importantly, through Digital Harrisburgstudent and faculty interaction and cooperation has never been more prominent or influential at Messiah

Rachel Morris, Environmental Engineering Major, Messiah College: “During this timeand familiarity with ArcGIS increased exponentially and I continue to learn new tricks and features daily.Collaborating with other students across disciplines has made the project an even more enjoyable learningexperience: chatting and laughing on Mondays while I draw lines, discussing the history of City Beautiful, adissecting addresses that do not match amongst sources. My job is more than just creating parallel andperpendicular lines, rather establishing houses that real people called home many years ago.”

Dan Stolyarov, GIS Major, Harrisburg University: “Working on this project with an outside brought many benefits to my experience. Meeting new people and creating a network is very important andallows me to move forward to bigger and better tasks. This project has allowed us to bring ideas together to cthe best outcome. While working with faculty I am being taught new skills in GIS. When I am collaboratinstudents we have the opportunity to teach each other. Working with faculty and students has engaged me in 4of Harrisburg University's core competencies: civic engagement, team work and collaboration, communicatcritical thinking .”

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