Dataset: Mapping Historic Philadelhia 1791 Directory & 1790 US Census
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GIS
Mapping
yellow fever
African Ameircans
African American Studies
American Studies
Demography, Population, and Ecology
Digital Humanities
Economic History
Ethnic Studies
Genealogy
Geographic Information Sciences
History
History of Gender
Human Geography
Inequality and Stratification
Labor Economics
Labor History
Medical Education
Medical Humanities
Migration Studies
Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies
Race and Ethnicity
Social History
United States History
Women's History
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The maps appeared in numerous publications, a few of which listed below. “Free African American Householders in Philadelphia, 1789-1791,” part of the permanent exhibit of the National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (2016) A map of Yellow Fever Deaths in 1793 has been included in various medical textbooks. Paul Sivitz & Billy G. Smith, “Identifying and Mapping Ethnicity in Philadelphia in the Early Republic,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History & Biography, 140: no. 3 (October 2016), 393-411. Paul Sivitz & Billy G. Smith, Philadelphia and Its Peoples in Maps: 1790s,” The Encyclopedia of Early Philadelphia, http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/philadelphia-and-its-people-in-maps-the-1790s/.
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This dataset includes information about Philadelphia from the City Directory of 1791, the US Census for 1790, and a 60% sample of the 1789 city tax list. We used the data to create numerous maps of Philadelphia; see a sample of maps and further explanation at http://www.mappinghistoricphiladelphia.org/