It’s a Google Streetmap of history: How our famous landmarks looked up to 170 years ago By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 07:19 GMT, 7 November 2011 A website has taken the notion of the 'Now and Then' photo to another level with their 'Google Streetmap of history' which allows people to see what a British street looked like 10, 20 or even 100 years ago. Like a photographic trip down memory lane, the phone app allows users to 'pin' photos to places on the map meaning you can see how the world has changed since the photo was taken, and read the stories behind the area. A vibrant Cambridge Market in the 1900's and today with several marquees in place It means people can see how the likes of London's Oxford Street and Wembley stadium, Cambridge city centre, or even Brighton pier, have developed over the past 170 years - just as it would appear on Google Streetmap. Historypin was founded by Oxford graduate and former teacher Nick Stanhope, CEO of London-based 'We Are What We Do', a non-profit company created in 2010. 'Everyone has history to share.
Prokudin-Gorskii Collection - About this Collection - Prints & Photographs Online Catalog All images are digitized | All jpegs/tiffs display outside Library of Congress | View All The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915. Frequent subjects among the 2,607 distinct images include people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, scenes along water and railway transportation routes, and views of villages and cities. The online collection presents Prokudin-Gorskii's vision and legacy in several image formats: Glass negatives: 1,902 b&w triple-frame images made with color separation filters Sepia-tone prints: 705 photos for which no glass negatives exist (reproduced from Prokudin-Gorskii's albums) Album pages showing all 2,433 sepia-tone prints and captions Modern color composites: 1,902 digital images made from the glass negatives in 2004 Modern color renderings: 122 digital files made from the glass negatives in 2000-2001.
Archiving Early America: Primary Source Material from 18th Century America Shaded Relief Map of North America (1200 px) The continent of North America in Earth's northern hemisphere, bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean. The map is showing physiographic regions of North America like the Atlantic–Gulf Coastal Plains; the Appalachian Highlands; the Great Plains; the Central Lowands; the Rocky Mountain System; and the Pacific Mountain System. Main rivers in North America are the Arkansas River, Colorado, Columbia, Mackenzie, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Peace, Rio Grande, Saskatchewan, Slave, Snake, and Yukon River. Largest lakes are: the Great Bear Lake, Great Slave Lake, Lake Athabasca, Reindeer Lake, and Lake Winnipeg all in Canada. Clickable shaded relief map of North America, with international borders, national capitals, major cities, oceans, islands, rivers, and lakes.
The Collection A million Vikings still live among us: One in 33 men can claim to be direct descendants from the Norse warriors Around 930,000 people can claim to be of direct Viking descent A study compared Y chromosome markers to estimated Viking DNA patternsThe Viking DNA patterns are rarely found outside Scandinavia By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 00:41 GMT, 10 March 2014 | Updated: 07:36 GMT, 10 March 2014 Almost one million Britons alive today are of Viking descent, which means one in 33 men can claim to be direct descendants of the Vikings. Around 930,000 descendents of warrior race exist today - despite the Norse warriors’ British rule ending more than 900 years ago. A genetic study carried out by BritainsDNA compared the Y chromosome markers - DNA inherited from father to son - of more than 3,500 men to six DNA patterns that are rarely found outside of Scandinavia and are associated with the Norse Vikings. Scroll down for video Amateur Vikings process around their longboat during the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands, Scotland 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17.
Meet Jane, the 14-year-old eaten when the first British settlers in America turned to cannibalism: The macabre secrets of starving pioneers besieged by Red Indians Skull of a 14-year-old girl, named 'Jane of Jamestown', shows scratch marks Anthropologists from the Smith-sonian National Museum of Natural History analysed her skull and severed leg bones Dr Douglas Owsley said bones evidence of 'survival cannibalism' Human remains date back to the deadly winter of 1609-1610, known as the 'starving time' in Jamestown, when hundreds of colonists died By Annabel Venning for MailOnline Published: 22:35 GMT, 15 May 2013 | Updated: 22:35 GMT, 15 May 2013 She had arrived in America only a few months earlier. But any sense of salvation was to be short-lived. Food was already scarce when seven ships — including the one Jane travelled on — arrived with another 300 settlers to add to the 100 or so trying to eke out an existence in the swampy outpost. A facial reconstruction of 'Jane of Jamestown' who archeologists believe was dug up and eaten by settlers. Jane left the English south coast in June 1609 as part of the largest fleet yet to sail for Jamestown
Antique Maps, Old maps, Vintage Maps, Antique Atlases, Old Atlases - StumbleUpon Pictured: The freed slave behind moving letter to old master after he was asked back to work on farm By Associated Press Published: 18:40 GMT, 16 July 2012 | Updated: 13:09 GMT, 17 July 2012 The photograph, scratched and undated, is captioned 'Brother Jordan Anderson'. Anderson was a former slave who was freed from a Tennessee plantation by Union troops in 1864 and spent his remaining 40 years in Ohio. He lived quietly and probably would have been forgotten, if not for a remarkable letter to his former master published in a Cincinnati newspaper shortly after the Civil War. Scathing: Former slave Jordan Anderson (left) wrote a satirical letter in 1865 to his old master after he was asked to return to work for him. Treasured as a social document, praised as a masterpiece of satire, Anderson’s letter has been anthologized and published all over the world. Historians teach it, and the letter turns up occasionally on a blog or on Facebook. Addressed to one Col. He informs the colonel that he’s now making a respectable wage in Dayton, Ohio, and that his children are going to school. Enlarge
the Centennia Historical Atlas -- Europe and the Middle East 1000AD to the Present, software for Windows and Mac OSX Lower price starting May 15, 2013: A single-user license is now priced at $59.00 with discounts for more licenses. Recent Additions and Changes:Single-user access code: lower priceNew Windows edition (Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP compatible)Macintosh OSX edition (Leopard, Snow Leopard compatible)Added review by Prof. Charles IngraoEU focus (for example, see the EU in 2008)Color schemesRead about the creator of CentenniaCentennia Software's home port is now Conanicut Island USA CENTENNIA is a map-based guide to the history of Europe and the Middle East from the beginning of the 11th century to the present. From Kevin Kelly's review of Centennia which was published in the Whole Earth Catalog: "As a kid I dreamed of maps that would move; I got what I wanted in Centennia. Kevin Kelly is editor-at-large and co-founder of "Wired" magazine and an all-around prophet of the digital age. Individual home users also purchase the Centennia Historical Atlas.
18th-century American Women The haunting images of workers as young as EIGHT in Massachusetts mill that helped change child labor laws By Daily Mail Reporter Published: 19:28 GMT, 27 September 2012 | Updated: 19:33 GMT, 27 September 2012 Youngsters today may lie about their ages to sneak into movies or bars, but a century ago, the fibbing stakes were considerably higher - as children routinely lied to keep their families above the poverty line. Haunting images taken at mills in Winchendon, Massachusetts in 1911 capture the faces of children as young as eight as they illegally endured unsafe conditions, long hours and poor pay to keep their families from starving. In a sad twist, the workers spent their hours making wooden toys - from doll furniture, drums and building blocks - for other youngsters who did not have to spend their childhood and adolescence cooped up inside the mills' four walls. While children under the age of 12 were not legally allowed to work in the mills, Hine noted that many appeared much younger, while others claimed they were older in order to be able to work longer hours. President Franklin D.
Lewis Hine: Harrowing images of child labourers that show children as young as three forced to do back-breaking work in fields, factories and mines Lewis Hine's photographs for the National Child Labor Committee helped bring in laws protecting youngsters He toured America to capture children at work in fields, mines, factories or making a living on the streets By Becky Evans Published: 10:01 GMT, 8 April 2013 | Updated: 11:05 GMT, 8 April 2013 He is most famous for his stunning images of men working hundreds of feet up on the Empire State Building. But photographer Lewis Hine's real legacy is the collection of pictures he took of children in factories, fields and sweatshops, which highlighted the appalling conditions they were made to work in at the beginning of the 20th Century. The images, taken for the National Child Labor Committee, shamed America and helped change the laws surrounding child workers. A 11-year-old young girl gazes out of the window during a break from her factory work in Lincolnton, North Carolina. Amos, six, (right) and Horace, four, are dwarfed by the tobacco plants they tend in this picture from 1916.