- Ad Access
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/
- This collection of 7,000 advertising images for the years 1911 to 1950 mostly from the J. Walter Thmpson collection at John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising, and Marketing History in Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library. Thumbnailed and searchable. Its especially good for transportation and cosmetics advertisements.
(28 Jul 2001)
- American Memory (Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amhome.html
- The U.S.A. Library of Congress has produced an amazing collection of 80,000 largely-American photos, a large proportion of them urban, plus maps, "birds-eye" views and documents in their American Memory collection. While it is well indexed and easy to obtain copies, the collection is so huge that the search function is often overwhelmed. Clearly the best place to look for iconography. The site contains images, plans and documents for both the Historic American Building Survey and Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER). There are special collections that cover architectural photography; African-American materials; baseball; the Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information photos from the 1930s and 1940s; a number of early twentieth-century records and early films (many depicting urban streets, parades and the like); photos from the Loeb Library at Harvard University documenting American architectural and landscape design 1850-1920; and hundreds of city maps and panoramic views culled from the Library's collection of 4.5 million items.
(20 Sep 2000; updated 7 Aug 2002)
 Review (H-Urban on February, 1997) by Eric Schneider, University of Pennsylvania.
- Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall
http://www.graffiti.org/
- Susan Farrell put together this collection of graffiti from over 100 cities. The collection is global, but strongest for the U.S. and Europe. Many of the works depicted no longer exist in real space.
(28 Jul 2001)
- "Census 2000 Segregation Data" See The Lewis Mumford Center.
- (17 Nov 2001)
- Charles Cushman Collection, Indiana University
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/cushman/
- Only a sample of this heavily urban collection of 18,000 images is online at present. The sample suggest that it will be one of the top image collections for urbanists when completed.
(8 Aug 2002)
- Demographic Trends in the 20th Century
http://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/censr-4.pdf
- Published November 2002, Frank Hobbs and Nicole Stoops assembled this 222-page Census Bureau special report (including graphs, maps and tables) based on the 2000 Census. It is in PDF (3.4 MB) format.
(15 Feb 2003)
- Digital Archive of American Architecture
http://www.bc.edu./bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/
- Archive of over 1,500 sorted and searchable indentified images of American architecture originally begun by Jeffrey Lowe of Boston College to supplement one of his courses. Most images in color and available for educational use.
Boston: History of the Landfills
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/bibliog_bos.html
The odd title notwithstanding, this is a lavishly illustrated site on Boston architecture with an excellent bibliography.
(26 June 2003)
- Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/index.html
- Much of the collection, drawn from the Hartman Center for Advertising History at Duke University, is dedicated to the industry itself. Urban historians will find the large collections of billboard photos and postcards especially interesting.
(9 Feb 2004)
- Finding Local Information
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/locinfo.html
- The Environmental Design Library, at the University of California-Berkeley put together this excellent bibliography and set of weblinks on the history of individual U.S.A. communities.
(30 Aug 2001; updated 8 Aug 2002)
- Garden and Forest
http://lcweb.loc.gov/preserv/prd/gardfor/gfhome.html
- A joint project of the Library of Congress Preservation Reformatting Division, the University of Michigan Making of America project, and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University has placed online a digitized version of the important periodical Garden and Forest: A Journal of Horticulture, Landscape Art, and Forestry (1888-1897), which covered park planning and the origins of urban planning in the U.S.A.
(30 Aug 2001; updated 8 Aug 2002)
HABS/HAER
http://www.cr.nps.gov/habshaer/
National Park Service website devoted to the Historical America Building Survey and Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER). Databased information that is accessible online is provided through the Library of Congress and its "American Memory" website (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/hhhtml/).
(25 Aug 2002)
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- "Hispanic Population and Residential Segregation"
- See The Lewis Mumford Center.
(31 Jul 2002)
Statistical Abstracts: Historical Statistics of the United States
http://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/index.htm- A project of the U.S. Census Bureau to make statistical abstracts from Colonial
times to the present available online. Full-text .PDF files can be downloaded for viewing or saving, but due to large file sizes, the process may be slow.
(9 Feb 2005)
- HUD User: Policy Information and Research Development Service
http://www.huduser.org/
- This HUD resource for housing and community development researchers and is the primary source for U.S. Federal Government reports and information on housing policy and programs, building technology, economic development, urban planning, and other housing-related topics. There is an excellent bibliographic search function and HUD's databases can be searched, including its annual "State of the Cities Report", which includes Census data back to 1970.
(7 Jan 2002; updated 8 Aug 2002)
- Lewis Mumford: A Bibliography
http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/mumford/
- A comprehensive listing of the famous urbanist's works created by the estate of Lewis and Sophia Mumford and the Annenberg Rare Book and Manuscript Library of the University of Pennsylvania.
(19 Nov 2001)
- The Lewis Mumford Center
http://www.albany.edu/mumford/
- The website showcases The Lewis Mumford Center urban projects. The Center was created in 1988 "to carry out urban research both comparative and historical in scope, the Center honors the tradition of interdisciplinary scholarship established by Lewis Mumford (1895-1990). Under the leadership of Director John Logan, the Center currently focuses on four key initiatives: 1) Global Neighborhoods, 2) the Urban Historical Initiative, 3) the China Urban Research Network; and 4) the Hudson-Mohawk Regional Workshop. Each of these projects examines the impact of global changes on the U.S. metropolis and civil society, probes the 19th and early 20th Century roots of present-day cities and suburbs, and addresses urban change in other parts of the world, mostly notably China." Exhibits currently available online include the following links.
(17 Nov 2001; updated 31 Jul 2002)
"Census 2000 Segregation Data"
http://www.albany.edu/mumford/census
The Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research at the University at Albany, New York has developed a web site that provides analyses of the changing racial/ethnic composition of metropolitan areas between 1990 and 2000, and the levels of residential segregation in both years. The complete coverage of metropolitan areas in the U.S., with the city and suburban portions separately, have been analyzed by a team of researchers at the center. The researchers conclude that "In those metro areas where most African Americans, Hispanics, and Asians live, our conclusion is that there has been no net change in segregation levels." Since March, 2001, the 1990 figures have been revised, with all indices recalculated to match the 2000 county and central city components of metropolitan areas.
(28 Jul 2001)
"Hispanic Population and Residential Segregation"
http://mumford1.dyndns.org/cen2000/HispanicPop/HspPopData.htm
Data and reports based on the 1990 and 2000 cesuses.
(31 Jul 2002)
Update Announcement (H-Urban: 29 Oct 2001)
More information on The Lewis Mumford Center, see the on website contents.
(30 Oct 2001)
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- MapStats
http://www.fedstats.gov/qf/
- A gateway compiled by HUD (see FedStats website at http://www.fedstats.gov) with Census Bureau Data of mainly contemporary statistics from over 100 U.S. federal agencies, including information on income, poverty, housing, crime, education, retail sales and many other state, city, metropolitan area and county data. It is linked to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development/Office of Policy Development & Research (HUD/PD&R) State of the Cities Data System to provide current and historical federal-wide information on cities, suburbs and metropolitan areas. Searches by zip code and thematic mapping are useful features.
(9 Feb 2004)
- MuseumStuff.com
http://www.museumstuff.com/
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The California-based marketing firm of Discovery Media has collected an impressive amount of useful information on museums and archives within the United States that can be sorted by the general categories of "Art + Design", "History + Culture", and "Science + Tech", or searched by custom topics (like early agriculture, looted treasure, and automobile history) for each state. The site "includes links to museum websites and virtual exhibits, educational and entertaining games and activities, and extensive learning resources concerning topics typically promoted through art, science and history museums." Though primarily designed for public use, the site also contains a Professional's Zone that "is a vertical portal for the museum and non-profit industry in general," covering many pertinent issues like environment control, insurance, and exhibit preparation.
(28 May 2004)
- nationalatlas.gov (National Atlas of the United States)
http://www.nationalatlas.gov
- A huge data base of federal government maps, geological environmental and social statistics, many of them interactive or multi-media. Unfortunately little is urban. Historical information includes the maps from the 1970 National Atlas and Scribner's Atlas of the U.S. (1883). There are links to historical maps in the Library of Congress and an excellent bibliography.
(9 Feb 2004)
- National Park Service: Links to the Past
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
- Includes several major websites under this umbrella site that contains rich data on historic places throughout the United States. The site focuses on the preservation, conservation, and documentation of significant historical people, culture, and places, covering such areas as museums, parks, communities, buildings, battlefields and landscapes. One current online exhibit is the "Ancient Architects" (http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/).
See also these other National Park Service websites: the National Register of Historic Places and HABS/HAER.
(25 Aug 2002)
- National Register of Historic Places
http://www.cr.nps.gov/places.htm
- In partnership with the U. S. National Park Service, the National Register of Historic Places has created this website as an access to the information provided in the documentation required to register a property. This is part of an ongoing project to digitalize its database covering nearly 75,000 listings in the Register as National Historic Landmarks or National Historic Places. Containing a wealth of information, the site includes a bibliography.
(25 Aug 2002)
- Review of Blaxploitation
http://www.blackvoices.com/feature/blk_history_98/blaxploitation/
- A short history of the 1970s genre with filmography, links and audio clips.
(9 Feb 2004)
- Reviews of Public History Web Sites
http://www.publichistory.org/reviews/index.asp
- This large and growing site by Public History Resource Center has links and reviews for dozens of websites, mostly for the nineteenth- and twentieth-century United States, many with urban and almost all with social history themes.
(9 Feb 2004)
- A Secret Landscape: The Cold War Infrastructure of the Nation's Capital Region
http://coldwardc.homestead.com/files/index.html
- Covering United States of America cities during the Cold War, the site has mainly text, both primary and secondary with an emphasis on communications, but some good material, including photos of bunkers.
(15 Feb 2003)
- Some Enchanted Evenings: American Picture Palaces
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/PALACE/home.html
- An interesting, short description of this topic by Mary Hanlon at the University of Virginia. Relatively few illustrations, but those are of high quality.
(9 Feb 2004)
- UNESCO Municipal Archives: North America
- See UNESCO Archives Portal
(7 Aug 2002)
- Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
http://womhist.binghamton.edu
- An ambitious site with over a thousand (13,000 are planned!) well-introduced documents on a variety of reform movements including prohibition/temperance, age of consent, anti-prostitution, birth control, suffrage anti-racism and others. There is also a "Teacher's Corner" and some useful links.
(9 Feb 2004)
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