Charting the Unknown

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Movies (Requires QuickTime®)
Three short films illustrate early attempts at 3D cartographic visualization of geographic change and movement over time. The first film was produced by one of the Harvard Laboratory's most prominent figures; the second two were produced at the Lab by one of its most prolific researchers.
	Lansing Urban Growth Dynamics 1850-1965		American Graph Fleeting: The Movie		AIR (Animated Information Retrieval)

Interviews (Requires QuickTime)
The videotaped interviews reassemble some key members of the Laboratory's staff. The interviewees discuss important concepts and difficulties of the early technology. Most importantly, despite the decades-long passages of time, the interviews capture the fascination of being present for the creation of a new technology—a true "charting the unknown."
	Eric Teicholz		Allan Schmidt		Tom Poiker
	Jack Dangermond		Nicholas Chrisman		Bruce Rowland
	R. Denis White		Scott Morehouse		Duane Niemeyer
	Hugh Keegan

Context newsletters (Requires Adobe® Reader®)
Context was a sporadic publication of the Laboratory that described the Lab's projects and kept software users informed of new versions and products. The first issue is from the early period of the Laboratory, near the high point of staffing. The next issue appeared at a low point in terms of staff numbers, when software sales became the primary revenue for the operation. Each issue chronicles the arrival of new staff, the set of current projects, and the topics that the Laboratory wanted to discuss with its user community. The graphics evolved from simple black and white to the last all-color issue in 1982. Only four libraries have retained copies of the entire set of 11 issues. This digital copy is intended to preserve this resource.
Context 1 February 1968 Context 2 September 1972 Context 3 December 1972 Context 4 June 1973		Context 5 November 1973 Context 6 April 1974 Context 7 November 1974 Context 8 May 1976		Context 9 January 1978 Context 10 Spring 1979 Context 1982•1983

Lists (Requires Adobe Reader)
Harvard Papers in Theoretical Geography, a series of reports from research projects led by William Warntz, 1967-1975.
Attendees at the First International Advanced Study Symposium on Topological Data Structures for Geographic Information Systems, Endicott House, October 16-21, 1977. This event brought together many who had founded the field of geographic information systems with those from the next generation who would implement the first commercial systems.
Bibliographic citations to publications of the later period of the Laboratory. A few of the publications were issued through normal channels and can be found in the open literature. Much of the rest were distributed directly by the Lab; by now, many of these are difficult to find.