Putting Museum Collections On the Map Megan Heckert Avencia Incorporated Museums and the Web April 16, 2009

“ If you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.” -Wendell Berry

1225 Pine St

Philly History.org

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Geocoding 1234 Market St

Waverly St from 13 th St, looking East Waverly St. & S. 13 th St.

Delaware Avenue – South from Walnut St Columbus Blvd and Walnut St.

Historic Street Name Index

Error Reporting

Error Reporting

Geocode Assets

Sesquicentennial Exposition

Developing the Interface +

Early Philly History Interface

Philly History Search Today

Increasing Interactivity

Experimenting with New Technologies RSS and GeoRSS

Experimenting with New Technologies Mobile Devices

Experimenting with New Technologies New Data Types

Search Results - Mural Details

Experimenting with New Technologies Google Street View

The Response

“ This is the best use of taxpayer money I’ve heard of in a long time. I’d even be willing pay more taxes, if it would speed up the image uploads … I’ve become a PhillyHistory.org junkie … ” Duane Swierczynski, CityPaper 2/28/2007

“ This is an incredible, incredible archive. I grew up in Port Richmond, as did all of my family, and it is wonderful to see all of these places again. We're going to go broke buying pictures! “

“ But the kicker was last night when an updated photo showing a church at 1028 N. 3rd Street in what is now being called Northern Liberties. I knew it as Lower Kensington then. To the right of that picture is the house that I was born in back on July 4 1955 and was still living there when this picture was taken on March 3 1959. It literally brought tears. I couldn't believe it. We have no pictures of anything from that period. They were lost in a fire around the corner in our other house in 1968…it is only a partial picture, but in it was my uncle's car – a 1955 Buick that about 6 years later was in a bad accident. Most important of all is that maybe you can see a little face at the back of the car and I swear it's either me or my twin brother peeking about!!! WOW!!! Talk about a birthday present. I cannot stress enough the power these pics bring showing not only my area but the whole city…Thank you very much. This is the best site on the internet ”