- Apr 22, 2024
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Touring Boston on the Elevated
Take a sightseeing tour around Boston in the early twentieth century through an eye-popping series of posters created by the Boston Elevated Railway
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- Mar 17, 2023
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Growing New England's Cities
What can a visualization of population growth in cities and towns in the Northeast tell us about different moments in the region's economic geography?
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- Aug 25, 2022
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Surveying all of Massachusetts in the town plans collections
Two digital collections from the Massachusetts Archives capture the micro-scaled geographies of Massachusetts towns in the Early Republic period
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- Jul 2, 2022
- Garrett Dash Nelson
A cartographic trip to Denmark
In celebration of Alan Leventhal's appointment as US Ambassador to Denmark, we take a look at some Danish connections in our collections
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- May 26, 2022
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Landscapes of visual repetition in "Bird's Eye Cards"
A new map visualization invites you to look at patterns in the landscape as seen from above
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- Aug 6, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
A map-less map of political geography in the US
Looking at red and blue America in a chart can sometimes be more helpful than seeing it on a conventional geographic map
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- May 18, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Roll the tape with Moviemaps
Our new video interactive takes you on a tour of historic objects that you can control yourself
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- May 13, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Neighbors in name only
A new interactive shows inequalities across borders in Massachusetts
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- Apr 27, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Sizing up the map with Insizeor
Our new scale-comparison tool lets you compare big, small, and in between
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- Mar 4, 2021
- Garrett Dash Nelson
Making water into gold
How much of Boston's present-day property value would have been underwater in 1630?
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