ENCRRC > GIS Experiment

The ENCRRC GIS application, like the archive, is under development.

Click here for the temporary textbase of an encoded excerpt from Charles Herbert Cottrell's Recollections of Siberia in the Years 1840 and 1841.

The following maps showcase three initial views of the GIS-based visualization of the database.
You may also click on each image to get a larger version of each map.

1. Distribution of Subscribers across the Russian Empire¹

2. Distribution of Subscribers in a Single Russian Region (West of Ural Mountains)²

3. Distribution of Subscribers according to Gender and Social Category in a Single Russian Region (West of Ural Mountains)³

For image with city names, click here. (Click once on image to focus.)

Map Sources

¹Map scanned from Cyclopaedia of Arts, Sciences & Literature by Abraham Rees, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Browne in 1820 in London

²Map scanned from Comprehensive Atlas and Geography of the World, published by Blackie and Sons in 1882 in Edinburgh, Scotland

³Map scanned from Comprehensive Atlas and Geography of the World, published by Blackie and Sons in 1882 in Edinburgh, Scotland

		University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Gateway Homepage Comments to: Miranda Remnek Last updated by JAS on Wednesday, 31-Oct-2007 14:17:41 CDT