{"id":1833776,"date":"2024-08-27T13:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1833776"},"modified":"2024-08-27T13:44:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T17:44:23","slug":"a-history-of-the-harvard-university-institute-of-geographical-exploration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/08\/a-history-of-the-harvard-university-institute-of-geographical-exploration\/","title":{"rendered":"A History of the Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThe Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration was one of the first and most well-wrought private institutions in aerial photography in the first half of the 20th century. Its short institutional life at Harvard was replete with materials, stories and scandal, and its pieces remain scattered today throughout the Harvard Archives and Libraries system and beyond.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/mapping.share.library.harvard.edu\/posts\/nicolae\/\">Ana Luiza Nicolae tracks down<\/a> what records, photos and other materials <a href=\"https:\/\/mapping.share.library.harvard.edu\/projects\/huige\/\">can still be found on the Harvard campus<\/a> that once belonged to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_H._Rice_Jr.\">Alexander H. Rice<\/a>\u2019s <abbr title=\"Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration\">HUIGE<\/abbr>, which was not closely affiliated with Harvard\u2019s geography department but was shut down at roughly the same time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Harvard University Institute of Geographical Exploration was one of the first and most well-wrought private institutions in aerial photography in the first half of the 20th century. Its short institutional life at Harvard was&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2024\/08\/a-history-of-the-harvard-university-institute-of-geographical-exploration\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[115,165,767,21,48,1208],"class_list":["post-1833776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-geography","tag-academe","tag-aerial","tag-exploration","tag-harvard","tag-libraries","tag-photogrammetry","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786210,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/09\/the-harvard-map-collection-at-200\/","url_meta":{"origin":1833776,"position":0},"title":"The Harvard Map Collection at 200","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"5 September 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"The Harvard Map Collection is celebrating its 200th anniversary. 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