Detail of Andrew Drury’s 1776 map of Philadelphia
We are really excited about this project by Molly Nebiolo, a digital humanities fellow at the American Philosophical Society. Nebiolo plans to use digital modelling software to bring historic maps into three dimensions. This includes Elfreth’s Alley, which you can see on the 1776 map of Philadelphia drawn by Andrew Drury (there it is called “Gillberl’s A.”, likely a corruption of “Gilbert’s Alley,” one of the early names for the street).
The pandemic cut short Nebiolo’s time at APS, but I’m hoping we’ll see this modeling project picked up again soon!
-TM
Read the Nebiolo’s writeup for Northeastern (which also got picked up by DigitalHumanitiesNow)
https://web.northeastern.edu/nulab/visualizing-colonial-philadelphia/