This post focuses on the images and creation of the webpage. The information on the map scans in the site is most easily given in a table, and I’m doing that. However a list doesn’t work for giving a relationship between items and locations.
Folks familiar with the Adirondacks likely recognize the Blue Line marking the outline of the Park. The park is a concept more than a thing since there are still towns and roads inside the line – and my lakeside cabin where I found the maps- and no physical border. The focus of the maps is Finch Pruyn lands that were actively managed forest for a century or more but then were largely bought by NY State, via the Nature Conservancy, and are now suppose to revert to natural-forest to an extent that varies with location.
The map template was pulled from a current era map. The USGS has high-resolution maps for both the current era historical maps available both online and as quality paper prints. One problem for this project was that the area at 1:25,0000 tended to fall into multiple blocks (Indian lake and Newcomb) with the border at the west end of the Goodnow flow. Features do change! The Goodnow Flow wasn’t there in the 1900 survey and the margins plus the west end (no Shadow dam) look different in the 1950s survey and on the forestry maps. More on that in a separate post or page.
The blue-green squares for the location of scanned maps were added manually and are approximate. I really ignored the WordPress theme in making the front page, the yellow buttons come from a plugin designed to identify items and give a price in a virtual store.
The icon in the header is based on a Finch Pruyn label for the end of a newsprint roll that I saw on Etsy (it was still for sale when I wrote this). I kept the concept with the red circles. I skipped including the native-American image from the middle –standards change and I wasn’t going to get time-tripped on that.