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The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) project is comprised of the early twentieth-century Sanborn fire insurance maps, Sholes' Directory of the Bethlehems, 1900-1901, 1900-1902 Bethlehem Steel employee lists, a contemporary database of streets, and selected information from the 1900 Census report. The result is a geospatial presentation of turn of the century Bethlehem population and a context for more specialized visualization of workers in the steel industry.

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Partially funded by a federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant administered by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, this project is made possible by the efforts of the following individuals and institutions:

Lehigh University
Library and Technology Services	Advisors	Partner Institutions
Lauren Coats	Anne K. Knowles	Bethlehem Area Public Library
Steve Firtko	Roger Simon	Hagley Museum and Archives
Julia Maserjian	John K. Smith	Historic Bethlehem Partnership
Tim McGeary		National Canal Museum
Jeff Remling
Christine Roysdon
Brian Simboli
Rob Weidman