New Features Debut on PhillyHistory.org!

PhillyHistory.org, a website that allows users to search through digitized historic photographs from the City Archives, recently released several new features to help people explore the history of Philadelphia.

 

The photographs on PhillyHistory.org provide a visual history of the city dating back to the 1860s, but it is now possible to view those scenes from the past right next to the present landscape. Photographs from PhillyHistory.org can be opened in GoogleEarth, a program that uses satellite and aerial images to enable people to virtually navigate through a 3-D landscape.

 

To view a photo in GoogleEarth, you must first have GoogleEarth downloaded and installed on your computer. Then on PhillyHistory.org, click on the blue link "Open in GoogleEarth." There are now three ways to see photos in GoogleEarth:

-         One photo at a time

-         The first 100 results of your search

-         The entire collection of 52,000 photographs

Once in GoogleEarth, you will notice that the images have been organized by decades in separate folders. With currently more than 52,000 photos in the system, we thought this would create a cleaner presentation.

 

New photographs are added to the website each week, which keeps our interns very busy! A new Behind-the-Scenes page on PhillyHistory.org provides readers with a virtual tour of the process of preserving and digitizing thousands of photographs.

 

To check out these new features, visit http://www.phillyhistory.org .  

 

 

 

Deborah Sting

 

Avencia Incorporated

Phone: 215-701-7506

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