Process – a blog for american history. Conditionally Accepted. The Professor Is In | Getting You Through Graduate School, The Job Market and Tenure… Mapping vice in San Francisco- Mapping the Nation Blog. David Rumsey has uploaded a rare 1885 map of San Francisco that represents the height of the anti-Chinese movement in California. The map accompanied a lengthy report of the city’s Board of Supervisors, and is one of the earliest examples I have seen of a map designed to identify the distribution of ethnicity and vice (prostitution, gambling, and opium “resorts” or dens). Click to open in new window, with higher resolution crops below. Tim Gilfoyle, author of two comprehensive books on the urban underworld, told me he has never seen a historic map aiming to identify vice in such detail. In Contagious Divides, Nyan Shah writes that the map represented a new form of knowledge, ordering and making intelligible “the heretofore impenetrable and labyrinthine geography of Chinatown.”
But that level of clarity is misleading. As Gilfoyle explained to me, the map only identifies the first floor of these establishment, missing both gambling dens below and brothels above. Click to open in new window. Uncommonplace Book – An Independent Historian's Blog. Clairey Ross | adventures in and about museums, technology and awesome user experiences. KnittedGardens. Blogging For Historians | A best practice Blog: Academic, Archival and Library History blogging. About | Wired History. Wired History is a collaborative project by graduate students to present insightful podcasts and blog posts on a variety of historical topics in a way that is both informative and entertaining. The material presented ranges from interviews with professionals to roundtable discussions, running the gamut from book reviews to lighthearted looks at the history of food and way history is depicted in the movies.
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