Nearly all the maps were created in 1923 or later, and hence are subject to the provisions of U.S. And Bobby Butler, Emily Thompson, and Michael Weinrib of the Map Collection edited this page to point to the Luna versions. Andrew Abbott of the University of Chicago's Department of Sociology made useful suggestions about what might be included. Bridget Madden of the University of Chicago's Visual Resources Center and Charles Blair of the Library's Digital Library Development Center developed a protocol in 2015 that allows access via Luna. Sheldon Lyke of the Map Collection did some of the record manipulation. Joost Dupon of the Map Collection did most of the scanning. The Digital Media Laboratory let Map Collection staff use its new Contex Crystal XL42 scanner, and Dale Mertes of the Digital Media Lab provided an enormous amount of assistance. Justin Rounds of the Digital Library Development Center helped with the programming. Several people contributed to the construction of this Web page. If you use the images in a publication, we expect that you will mention that the original maps-and the files-are from the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. E-mail from the "Questions about this page?" button below.ĭownloaded files are freely available for personal or scholarly use. The original tiff files are also available. To access the Luna files, click on the "Click here for Luna version" button.
#Chicago 1930 map download#
It also allows download of jpeg versions of the files (click "Export"). Luna, like Zoomify, allows you to zoom in and out and to move around. You can also see the files through Luna. Zoomify requires Flash and so won't work on many mobile phones. Zoomify breaks the original tiff files into tiny jpegs, so you can zoom in and out and move around quickly and efficiently. Click on the thumbnails below to see the files in a program called Zoomify. You can access these files in two different ways: The maps were scanned at 400 dpi and saved as tiff files. The maps are listed below in order of date of situation. We acknowledge that most of the maps included are not cartographic masterpieces, but they all convey information that could not be presented in any other format. It is arguable that, at the moment of their creation, the Chicago School maps made up the most wide-ranging cartographic portrait of an urban area that had ever been compiled.Īlso included are several of geographer Harold Mayer's railroad maps anthropologist Sol Tax's manuscript cartographic representation of blockbusting in the Hyde Park area and other maps as well.
These maps were created during the 1920s and the 1930s, at more or less the same time as another Chicago School product, the Social Science Research Committee census maps. Included here are several products of the "Chicago School of Sociology" including the Social Base Map of Chicago a group of anonymous neighborhood maps several maps of land use or land value by (or connected with) Homer Hoyt and maps from books by Frederic Thayer on gangs, Walter Reckless on "vice," and Clifford Shaw on crime.
This Web site provides links to a few of the social science maps of Chicago that are held as separate pieces by the University of Chicago Library's Map Collection. This claim is unprovable, but there were certainly an enormous number of scholarly studies of Chicago between the 1920s and the middle of the 20th century. Geographer Chauncy Harris often argued that Chicago in the first half of the 20th century was the most studied city in the world.
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