I was told that C. Booth's study was imitated for some other towns, in the
United States (Chicago ?) at the end of the century. Do you have
informations about that ?
Thank You
At 11:46 07/02/01 +0000, vous avez écrit:
>Folks,
>
>This might be of interest.
>
>Nick
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>Subject: ONLINE: Charles Booth's Maps Descriptive of London Poverty 1898-9
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>You may be interested to know that the Online Guide to the Papers of Charles
>Booth, an archive project based at the London School of Economics, has just
>put a digital version of the Booth Maps Descriptive of London Poverty,
>1898-99 online for pre-launch testing.
>
>Users can zoom, scroll, and use a thumbnail map to navigate round the map.
>We have put a modern digital map online too, which can be viewed in parallel
>with the Booth map.
>
>If you have a few minutes to spare, please visit the site at
>http://www.lse.ac.uk/booth/ , click on the link at the top of the page, and
>take a look at what we have been doing. We are keen to get as much feedback
>as possible before the site launches in April 2001, so please feel free to
>let us know what you think.
>
>Over the next few weeks we will be adding search boxes to the map to allow
>searching by modern street name, post code, area and parish name, and
>landmarks. We are also beginning the process of making other material from
>Booth's survey into life and labour in London available online: these will
>include the full catalogue of the Booth collection at the LSE and digital
>images of the police notebooks from the survey, as well as material from the
>Booth collection at the University of London Library.
>
>Many thanks
>Caroline Shaw
>
>Project Manager
>Online Guide to the Papers of Charles Booth
>London School of Economics Library
>25 Southampton Buildings
>London WC2A 1PH
>
>Tel: 020 7955 6933
>Fax: 020 7955 7454
>E-mail: [log in to unmask]
>http://www.lse.ac.uk/booth/
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>Nick Millea
>Map Librarian, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG
>tel : 01865 277013
>fax : 01865 277139
>email : [log in to unmask]
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>homepage: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/guides/maps/
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