Explore HistoryForge

HistoryForge is a digital history project combining maps 🗺, archival records 🗂, and census data 📊 that allows any community to explore its local history.

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

This interactive display part of the reCOUNT exhibit includes twelve #historicmaps of #Ithaca and #TompkinsCounty georectified to modern @googlemaps. This interactivity allows the user to toggle between the present day and the past. Learn more at https://t.co/nT2BW96saV

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

Thank you to @NewsMadeline for your thoughtful coverage of the reCOUNT: Facing our Census exhibit on display at @TompkinsHistory! This exhibit connected the data drawn from the #Ithaca #HistoryForge project with local archival collections. Read more: https://t.co/WuFMYcizkH

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

Excited to get started on this expansion of #HistoryForge with the @NEHgov grant starting the first week of October!

[The History Center in Tompkins County @TompkinsHistory]

@TompkinsHistory is excited to announce that we have received a major award from @NEHgov of $145,634 to expand and continue the @_HistoryForge project. https://t.co/mLe3nbOHeh
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#TompkinsHistory #NEHgrant #AMorePerfectUnion #historyforge #explorehistoryforge #digitalmapping

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

Our entire local history family was heartbroken by the death of #HistoryForge co-founder Robert Kibbee on May 31st 2022. The project combined many of Bob's passions, including maps, census data, genealogy, and local history.
https://t.co/HjHX3g8NH3

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

#HistoryForge helps researchers explore the interplay of #historicmaps, #census records, and building records. This 1888 #SanbornMap shows #ArchivesonMyStreet and business names for the @TompkinsHistory building in #Ithaca. Explore at https://t.co/CKnxGgwT5t #ArchivesHashtagParty

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

'reCOUNT: Facing our Census' opened at @TompkinsHistory in downtown #Ithaca on 4/1. The exhibit draws hugely on the Ithaca #HistoryForge project which spans 1900-1940 (1880 is finished too we just have to make it live!). This exhibit will be on display April 2022-March 2023.

[The History Center in Tompkins County @TompkinsHistory]

Just one more day until the opening of 'reCOUNT: Facing our Census'! Doors open at 10am and will stay open until 8pm as part of #GalleryNight in #DowntownIthaca. #twithaca

[U.S. National Archives @USNatArchives]

Happy #1950Census Day!

You’re invited to a #1950Census celebration at https://t.co/qzBjzoyHvK!

Join us at 10 am ET for messages from the Archivist of @USNatArchives the Director of @uscensusbureau Secretary of @CommerceGov Secretary of @Interior and more!

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

@TompkinsHistory @IthacaTown We're hoping to get started on 1950 for #Ithaca in the coming months, work has already started for the #TownofCaroline in #TompkinsCounty, and reach out about #HistoryForge #census projects in #Auburn, #Oberlin, and #Elmira!

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

Thank you @MaeveKane for your wonderful review of the @Ithaca @_HistoryForge project in the newest issue of @NYHJournal! We've expanded since her review in May 2021 into #Elmira, #Oberlin, #Auburn, and expanding the @TompkinsHistory program from Ithaca into the Town of Caroline!

[New York History Journal @NYHJournal]

The new issue of @NYHJournal from @CornellPress and @nysmuseum is finally here! Download the free teaser article from Michael J. Douma, "Dutch-Speaking Runaways in New York and New Jersey, 1730-1825," at https://t.co/UL2gxy6Mp8.
#NYHistory
#NewYorkHistory

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

We're very excited that the hard work of #HistoryForge volunteers in #Ithaca and across #TompkinsCounty over the last 6 years is being recognized in this exhibit by @TompkinsHistory. Learn more at https://t.co/xWydzB33Ld and follow #OurTompkins for exhibit highlights.

[The History Center in Tompkins County @TompkinsHistory]

@TompkinsHistory is very excited to announce our new exhibit, opening 4/1/2022, 'reCOUNT: Facing our Census' reviewing 23 decades of census records in #TompkinsStories, & the narratives they tell about family, immigration, industry and more! https://t.co/jnMSCGozLx #twithaca

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

You can see the full listings for the Payne family on @_HistoryForge for the 1920 and 1930 #census years https://t.co/O4VJVbsu5v! In 1920 Verdelle Payne listed his profession as "Miller". He was not still living in the household in 1930 but his son was. #twithaca #HistoryForge

[The History Center in Tompkins County @TompkinsHistory]

#TuskegeeAirman Verdelle Louis Payne was born in the same house as #Roots author #AlexHaley. #TompkinsHistory #Ithaca #Blackhistory #twithaca.

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

@TompkinsHistory You can see the full listings for the Payne family on @_HistoryForge for the 1920 and 1930 #census years https://t.co/O4VJVbsu5v! In 1920 Verdelle Payne listed his profession as "Miller". He was not still living in the household in 1930 but his son was. #twithaca #HistoryForge

[Cornell_Library @Cornell_Library]

Congrats to Bob Kibbee and the History Forge team! Bob is a beloved former map and geospatial librarian at Cornell University Library. Wonderful to see what he and History Forge team have created! https://t.co/MZDpI5k9SJ

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

Thank you to @HistoricIthaca for honoring #HistoryForge co-founders Bob Kibbee & Dave Furber w/ #HistoricPresevation🏆 ! Their work in creating this innovative environment for local building, #census, and #map records is truly groundbreaking. https://t.co/CKnxGgfhGT #twithaca

[The History Center in Tompkins County @TompkinsHistory]

Each Monday we'll share a #map from @TompkinsHistory Archives collection of over 1200 #archivalmaps. Today's map is the Bird's Eye View of #Ithaca N.Y. drawn in 1873. You can see some familiar landmarks like Six Mile Creek, & @Cornell.
#TompkinsHistory #Ithaca #IthacaNY #twithaca

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

Explore these records and #historicmaps and building records at https://t.co/CKnxGgwT5t

[The History Center in Tompkins County @TompkinsHistory]

We can't wait to add the #1950census to @_HistoryForge for the City of #Ithaca. We've completed the census years for 1900, 1910, 1920, 1930, and are nearly finished with 1940! #ExploreHistoryForge

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

Have you ever wondered what life was like in #Oberlin in 1910? What were Oberlinians doing day to day? What type of jobs did they have? Learn from Ohio History Service Corps member Marissa Hamm from the @OberlinHeritage #HistoryForge project: https://t.co/Cg05wNbRk5

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

Explore Sol's record here: https://t.co/DGqbukutg6

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

We found Sol Goldberg on the 1940 #census for #IthacaNY. In 1940 Solomon was 17 years old and living at 105 S. Meadow St with his family. Records for minors tend to be sparse, but we look forward to seeing his records in the 1950 census being released next year! #HistoryForge

[The History Center in Tompkins County @TompkinsHistory]

We couldn't celebrate an #ArchivesAthlete #ArchivesHashtagParty without #TompkinsCounty #SolGoldberg📸 Sol pioneered the "strobe action technique" for #sportsphotography in the early 1950s which was widely adopted. He produced 1200-1500 #sports photos for @Cornell each year.

[Explore HistoryForge @_HistoryForge]

@TompkinsHistory @Cornell We found Sol Goldberg on the 1940 #census for #IthacaNY. In 1940 Solomon was 17 years old and living at 105 S. Meadow St with his family. Records for minors tend to be sparse, but we look forward to the 1950 census being released next year! #HistoryForge https://t.co/DGqbukutg6