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Digital Harrisburg

Exploring the history, society, and culture of Pennsylvania's capital city

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    • Commonwealth Monument Project
      • Look Up Look Out
        • The Civil War & Emancipation
        • Great Speakers
        • Educational Reform
        • Church Communities
        • Seeking Shalom
        • Business & Social Life
        • Serving the People
        • Vice & Virtue
        • City Beautiful & Capitol Extension
        • Gateway to the Capitol
        • Political Life
        • Making a Home
      • One Hundred Voices
        • 100 Voices A-D
        • 100 Voices F-N
        • 100 Voices P-Z
    • The Old Eighth Ward
    • Stories In Place
    • The City Beautiful
    • Race and Place in Harrisburg
    • African-American Women’s Organizations in Harrisburg
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Exploring the history, society, and culture of Pennsylvania’s capital city

Exhibitions

A series of digital exhibits designed to let you explore the social history of Harrisburg.

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Datasets

Coming 2022-2023 — curated collections of social and historical datasets of Harrisburg available for download. Harrisburg Population The Influenza Outbreak of 1918 (the Spanish Flu) For context and discussion of data, see Sarah Wilson Carter, “The 1918 Influenza Outbreak in Harrisburg” (pp. 148-154) [available for free download from the PHA website]

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Taking the Mobile App to the Lincoln Cemetery: A First Glimpse of Lincoln Cemetery

As a Public History major, I have been bestowed the honor of continuing the work that Rachel Petroziello had started last semester on the Lincoln Cemetery Mapping Project. For some context, Lincoln Cemetery is a historically Black cemetery in Penbrook, Pennsylvania, which is also an eternal resting place for some historically significant figures such as…

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