Around the World in (Almost!) 80 Collections
Using digitized items and their data to take a global journey.
The Science History Institute’s digital collections librarian, Annabel Pinkney, explores the geographic reach of our digitized collections in an ArcGIS StoryMap, a platform that helps librarians, curators, and storytellers harness Geographical Information Systems (or GIS) to analyze and display location data.
Click the map below to join Annabel on a global journey of data, digital collections, and spatial dimensions.
Will’s Habitat Map from A Manual of Vegetable Materia Medica written by George Sampson Valentine Wills, 1886.
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