4-D Historical Atlas of the United StatesPresented to the Cyberinfrastructure 2005 Workshop University of Nebraska, LincolnWilliam G. Thomas, IIIJohn and Catherine Angle Professor in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

4-D Historical AtlasThe core problem is how to represent and analyze large-scale processes in the American experience, such as immigration patterns demographic shifts railroad growth climate change financial development environmental change

4-D Historical AtlasThe key issues include:how to reconcile varying geographic information and representation systems, how to present visual models of "lost" or changed landscapes, how to encode spatial and temporal data into large digital collections, how to interconnect data at different institutions for inclusion in a large mapping system.

4-D Historical AtlasWe are concentrating on mapping the relationships between environmental/ natural "systems" and human "systems." Analytical problems include:how Americans changed their relationship to the environment over time what environmental systems measurement can reveal about human event, andhow to understand these interrelationships going forward.

4-D Historical AtlasThe project aims to establish a model for capturing, representing, and examining large-scale historical processes, especially environmental and human systems. At its core the Atlas will be multidimensional, computational, large-scale, and visual.

4-D Historical Atlas: RailroadCape Charles, VA 1869

U.S. Coast Survey (Benjamin Peirce Supdt.) Eastern Shore of Virginia (Broad Water Sheet No. 2). Surveyed during the winter and spring of 69-70.

4-D Historical Atlas: RailroadCape Charles, VA 1885

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, J.E. Hilgard Superintendent Cherrystone Inlet, Virginia (with Map of the Terminus of the N.-Y.P. & N.R.R., Virginia in upper left corner: Cape Charles). 1885.

4-D Historical Atlas: RailroadCape Charles, VA 1904

Department of Commerce and Labor, Coast and Geodetic Survey, O.H. Tittmann, Superintendent, Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, Cape Charles and Vicinity, Virginia.

4-D Historical Atlas: RailroadCape Charles, VA 1917

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, Soil survey of Accomac and Northampton Counties, Virginia, by E.H. Stevens ; W. Edward Hearn, Inspector, Southern Division. 1917.

4-D Historical Atlas: StormsStorm 6, 1897October 23-31National View

4-D Historical Atlas: StormsStorm 6, 1897October 23-31Regional View

4-D Historical Atlas: StormsStorm 6, 1897October 23-31Local View: Cobbs Island

Cobb's Island, Va. Open all the year. The grandest surf bathing on the Atlantic Coast. Boating, hunting, fishing. Cape Charles, Va., Atlantic Printing and Engraving Works, c.1895

4-D Historical Atlas: StormsStorm 6, 1897October 23-31Local Commentary: Cobbs Island

Survivor testimony, from Peninsula Enterprise, October 30, 1897.Some idea of the fury of the storm which swept along our coast for several days of last week and the losses caused by it may be obtained from the reports of our correspondents from various sections of Accomack, but they stop very far short of the damage done and distress occasioned by the storm all along our coast from Cobb's Island, obliterated form the map of Virginia, to Franklin City, so entirely submerged, that is was practicably deserted, we are advised, by its inhabitants.

4-D Historical Atlas: WatershedsNandua CreekNassawadox CreekKings Creek

4-D Historical Atlas: WatershedsNandua Creek185319041917

No.44 Nanuda Creek & Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay (A.D. Bache Supt), 1853.

4-D Historical Atlas: WatershedsNandua Creek185319041917

Department of Commerce and Labor, Coast and Geodetic Survey, O.H. Tittmann, Superintendent, Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, Craddock Creek to Chesconessex Creek, Virginia, 1903-1904 .

4-D Historical Atlas: WatershedsNandua Creek185319041917

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, Soil survey of Accomac and Northampton Counties, Virginia, by E.H. Stevens ; W. Edward Hearn, Inspector, Southern Division, 1917.

4-D Historical Atlas: WatershedsNassawadox Creek185319041917

No.48 Occohannock, Nassawadox and Hungers Creeks Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake (A.D. Bache Supt), 1853.

4-D Historical Atlas: WatershedsNassawadox Creek185319041917

Department of Commerce and Labor, Coast and Geodetic Survey, O.H. Tittmann, Superintendent, Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, Mattawoman Creek to Craddock Creek, Virginia, 1904.

4-D Historical Atlas: WatershedsNassawadox Creek185319041917

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, Soil survey of Accomac and Northampton Counties, Virginia, by E.H. Stevens ; W. Edward Hearn, Inspector, Southern Division, 1917.

4-D Historical Atlas: WatershedsKings Creek186919041917

U.S. Coast Survey (Benjamin Peirce Supdt.) E.Shore of Virginia (Broad Water Sheet No. 2). Surveyed during the winter and spring of 69-70.

4-D Historical Atlas: WatershedsKings Creek186919041917

Department of Commerce and Labor, Coast and Geodetic Survey, O.H. Tittmann, Superintendent, Chesapeake Bay, Eastern Shore, Cape Charles and Vicinity, Virginia, 1904.

4-D Historical Atlas: WatershedsKings Creek186919041917

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Soils, Soil survey of Accomac and Northampton Counties, Virginia, by E.H. Stevens ; W. Edward Hearn, Inspector, Southern Division, 1917.