4-D Historical Atlas of the United States

1. 4-D Historical Atlas of the United States Presented to the Cyberinfrastructure 2005 Workshop University of Nebraska, Lincoln William G. Thomas, III John and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities, University ofNebraska-Lincoln

2. 4-D Historical Atlas The core problem is how to represent and analyze large-scale processes in the American experience, such as • immigration patterns • demographic shifts • railroad growth • climate change • financial development • environmental change

3. 4-D Historical Atlas The key issues  include: • how to reconcile varying geographic information and representation systems, • how to present visual models of "lost" or changed landscapes, • how to encode spatial and temporal data into large digital collections, • how to interconnect data at different institutions for inclusion in a large mapping system.

4. 4-D Historical Atlas We are concentrating on mapping the relationships between environmental/ natural "systems" and human "systems."  Analytical problems include: • how Americans changed their relationship to the environment over time • what environmental systems measurement can reveal about human event, and • how to understand these interrelationships going forward.

5. 4-D Historical Atlas The project aims to establish a model for capturing, representing, and examining large-scale historical processes, especially environmental and human systems.   At its core the Atlas will be multidimensional, computational, large-scale, and visual. 

6. 4-D Historical Atlas: Railroad Cape Charles, VA 1869 U.S. Coast Survey (Benjamin Peirce Supdt.) Eastern Shore of Virginia (Broad Water Sheet No. 2). Surveyed during the winter and spring of 69-70.

7. 4-D Historical Atlas: Railroad Cape Charles, VA 1885 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, J.E. Hilgard Superintendent Cherrystone Inlet, Virginia (with Map of the Terminus of the N.-Y.P. & N.R.R., Virginia in upper left corner: Cape Charles). 1885.

8. 4-D Historical Atlas: Railroad Cape Charles, VA 1904 Department of Commerce and Labor, Coast and Geodetic Survey, O.H. Tittmann, Superintendent, Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, Cape Charles and Vicinity, Virginia.

9. 4-D Historical Atlas: Railroad Cape Charles, VA 1917 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, Soil survey of Accomac and Northampton Counties, Virginia, by E.H. Stevens ; W. Edward Hearn, Inspector, Southern Division. 1917.

10. 4-D Historical Atlas: Storms Storm 6, 1897 October 23-31 National View

11. 4-D Historical Atlas: Storms Storm 6, 1897 October 23-31 Regional View

12. 4-D Historical Atlas: Storms Storm 6, 1897 October 23-31 Local View: Cobb’s Island Cobb's Island, Va. Open all the year. The grandest surf bathing on the Atlantic Coast. Boating, hunting, fishing. Cape Charles, Va., Atlantic Printing and Engraving Works, c.1895

13. Storm 6, 1897 October 23-31 Local Commentary: Cobb’s Island Survivor testimony, from Peninsula Enterprise, October 30, 1897. “Some idea of the fury of the storm which swept along our coast for several days of last week and the losses caused by it may be obtained from the reports of our correspondents from various sections of Accomack, but they stop very far short of the damage done and distress occasioned by the storm all along our coast from Cobb's Island, obliterated form the map of Virginia, to Franklin City, so entirely submerged, that is was practicably deserted, we are advised, by its inhabitants.” 4-D Historical Atlas: Storms

14. 4-D Historical Atlas: Watersheds • Nandua Creek • Nassawadox Creek • King’s Creek

15. 4-D Historical Atlas: Watersheds • Nandua Creek • 1853 • 1904 • 1917 No.44 Nanuda Creek & Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay (A.D. Bache Supt), 1853.

16. 4-D Historical Atlas: Watersheds • Nandua Creek • 1853 • 1904 • 1917 Department of Commerce and Labor, Coast and Geodetic Survey, O.H. Tittmann, Superintendent, Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, Craddock Creek to Chesconessex Creek, Virginia, 1903-1904.

17. 4-D Historical Atlas: Watersheds • Nandua Creek • 1853 • 1904 • 1917 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, Soil survey of Accomac and Northampton Counties, Virginia, by E.H. Stevens ; W. Edward Hearn, Inspector, Southern Division, 1917.

18. 4-D Historical Atlas: Watersheds • Nassawadox Creek • 1853 • 1904 • 1917 No.48 Occohannock, Nassawadox and Hungers Creeks Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake (A.D. Bache Supt), 1853.

19. 4-D Historical Atlas: Watersheds • Nassawadox Creek • 1853 • 1904 • 1917 Department of Commerce and Labor, Coast and Geodetic Survey, O.H. Tittmann, Superintendent, Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, Mattawoman Creek to Craddock Creek, Virginia, 1904.

20. 4-D Historical Atlas: Watersheds • Nassawadox Creek • 1853 • 1904 • 1917 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, Soil survey of Accomac and Northampton Counties, Virginia, by E.H. Stevens ; W. Edward Hearn, Inspector, Southern Division, 1917.

21. 4-D Historical Atlas: Watersheds • King’s Creek • 1869 • 1904 • 1917 U.S. Coast Survey (Benjamin Peirce Supdt.) E.Shore of Virginia (Broad Water Sheet No. 2). Surveyed during the winter and spring of 69-70.

22. 4-D Historical Atlas: Watersheds • King’s Creek • 1869 • 1904 • 1917 Department of Commerce and Labor, Coast and Geodetic Survey, O.H. Tittmann, Superintendent, Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, Cape Charles and Vicinity, Virginia, 1904.

23. 4-D Historical Atlas: Watersheds • King’s Creek • 1869 • 1904 • 1917 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, Soil survey of Accomac and Northampton Counties, Virginia, by E.H. Stevens ; W. Edward Hearn, Inspector, Southern Division, 1917.