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Dec 7, 2021 · A glimpse into New York City at the turn of the 20th century can now be viewed at an exceptional level of detail: 6.5 million unique census records from 1850, 1880, and 1910 are pinpointed to residential addresses on the recently launched website Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas.
Welcome to Mapping Historical New York, an interactive map that shows demographic and urban changes in Manhattan & Brooklyn, 1850—1910. Columbia University CSR and Dept. of History Funded by the Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation
A collaboration to map immigration and neighborhood change in New York City during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Mapping Historical New York, through web-based, interactive maps, reconstructs the demographic and structural shifts of Manhattan and Brooklyn between 1850 and 1920. During this period, the city grew and ...
Oct 27, 2021 · The Digital Atlas breaks new ground by locating each person counted in the Census at their home address, sometimes before the street grid was even established. Thus far, the maps include 6.5 million unique census records for 1850, 1880, and 1910, matched to home locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1881. Columbia offers its first courses in drawing. 1900. Brander Matthews appointed Professor of Dramatic Literature, first Chair of Drama at any university in the country. 1911. Columbia founds its Undergraduate Creative Writing Program, becoming one of the first schools in the country to offer creative writing classes. 1915.
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Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, [8] is a private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States.
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The School of the Arts, established in 1965, has roots in Columbia’s first drawing classes offered in 1881, and the creation of the Department of Fine Arts (1921), School of Painting and Sculpture, and School of Dramatic Arts (1947).
