Abstract

Discovering Henry Huntington’s Landholdings in Southern California
Track: Web Apps
Authors: Aldous Tsang

In the late 1800s, Henry E. Huntington owned more than 60,000 acres of land in southern California, including thousands of properties in the burgeoning Los Angeles metropolitan area. Detailed maps of these landholdings are in today’s Huntington Library, but access is limited to scholarly researchers. An application was developed to allow library volunteers unfamiliar with GIS to easily georeference the maps, making them more useful for scholars and available to the general public.