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Atlanta, GA | Posted: June 4, 2013
Wendy Hagenmaier
Digital Archivist, Georgia Tech Library
Wendy.Hagenmaier@library.gatech.edu
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Historypin
Coon Mechanical Engineering Building Using HistorypinEver wish you could tour Georgia Tech’s campus as it once was years ago? Do you have old pictures of campus gathering dust in a drawer or more recent digital photos sitting on your hard drive?
Now you can experience Georgia Tech of the past and present from your desktop or mobile device using an interactive, collaborative mapping app called Historypin. Georgia Tech archivists created a channel that enables you to experience places around campus at distinct moments in the past.
Historypin allows you can see a view of today’s Atlanta, as well as layers of historic photos of the city and Georgia Tech. This social media/Google Maps mash up is spearheaded by Google and We Are What We Do, a London-based nonprofit. The duo's creation allows you to create an interactive landscape of the past and present by attaching your photos to the present-day street view of a Google map. You can take a tour of historic campus buildings and explore photo collections documenting years of Georgia Tech Athletics, ROTC, and Greek Life memories.
“The power and excitement of archives reside in their ability to expose the layers of past and present, to take us back in time while offering us fresh insights into our own modern landscape,” said Wendy Hagenmaier, Digital Archivist at the Georgia Tech Library. “Historypin harnesses these powers by enabling anyone from the Tech community to have a hand in creating the history of the Institute.”
Currently, Historypin features a number of historic photos taken from the Georgia Tech Archives History Digital Portal, which gives the Tech community and anyone interested in institute history access to thousands of photos from the 1890s to the mid-twentieth century. The portal also contains photos of campus buildings, traditions, student life, faculty, alumni, etc.
Current students, alumni, faculty, and staff can ‘pin’ their photos and video footage to the GT Archives Historypin Channel via desktop or a mobile device. By downloading the Historypin mobile app, smartphone users can engage in an augmented reality experience that superimposes the historical realm onto the real world.
Simply log in with a Google account and you can add memories to existing pictures, “pin” your own photos and videos to the map, or take “Historypin Repeats”—modern day photos that capture the current appearance of a place, which will one day become historical records themselves.
“We invite everyone to pin their photos and videos of Georgia Tech–both old and new–to the Historypin map,” added Hagenmaier.
Pin on Historypin website:
1) Click “Pin” at the top right
2) Log in with your Google account
3) Follow the steps to add your item
4) GT Archives will “favorite” your item so it will appear in our collection
5) Click “Become a Fan” on our GT Archives Historypin
Pin using the Historypin smartphone app:
1) Download the Historypin app
2) Log in with your Google account
3) Add items, take virtual tours, and snap present day recreations of old photos
4) GT Archives will “favorite” your item so it will appear in our collection
5) Click “Become a Fan” on our GT Archives Historypin
For more information about the Georgia Tech Historypin site, historical photos of Georgia Tech or the Archives Department, contact Wendy Hagenmaier at wendy.hagenmaier@library.gatech.edu.
