Projects
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Love Cults, Masquerading Gals, and Subway Sammies
Created by Sam Hurwitz The aim of Love Cults, Masquerading Gals, and Subway Sammies is to analyze the diverse LGBTQ+ subcultures that existed in mid-twentieth century Boston. Using the The Mid-Town Journal, one of the most valuable historical records for Boston’s LGBTQ+ community, this project employs data visualization, mapping, and historical contextualization to bring greater…
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Mapping Manifestos
Created by Catherine Enwright Mapping Manifestos focuses on the attributes and scope of primarily European artistic manifestos, especially in the early twentieth century. Among other things, the project provides an explanation of the genesis manifesto, visualizations of the temporal and geographical scope of manifesto production, and a searchable manifestos database. This project is in the…
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Analyzing The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with Coleridge and Doré
Created by Catherine Enwright This digital exhibit and mapping based project exploresThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s seminal poem, through the eyes of three interlocutors: the engravings of Gustav Dore, John Livingstone Lowe’s mammoth 1927 commentary on Coleridge’s work, and David Jones’ 1963 commentary on The Rime. This project is in the…
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Early English Book Subscribers
Created by Elspeth Currie Early English Book Subscribers introduces the men and women who subscribed to books published in England between 1617 and 1698. Its core is a dataset of demographic information based on twelve surviving subscriber lists, with 4,104 entries. Along with the original transcribed list entries, viewers can learn the class status, presumed…
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Colombia Point, A Boston History
Created by Emily Coello Columbia Point, a Boston History focuses on the Columbia Point housing project that was completed in 1954, and was Boston’s last large-scale housing development. The project explores the history of public housing, changes in postwar Boston, racial tensions, and more. Unfortunately, the data visualizations, which used cenus data to show changing…
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Black Women’s Labor in 1920 Boston
Created by Bailey Lemoine Black Women’s Labor in 1920 Boston uses Boston census data to elucidate the kind of work available to Black women in 1920. It does not provide a complete record but,instead, a representative sample of women between the ages of 20-30. The stories of individual women included here, though filtered through official…