Pratt Museum

The Pratt Museum will digitize 45 maps from its cartography archives, create an online catalog where community members and researchers can access the maps, and facilitate community and classroom conversations to inspire new map creation. The project will focus on 45 specific maps ranging from the earliest years of the 20th century through the late 1970s. The digitization project will include maps that were hand-drawn by local cartographers, documenting the layout of the town over various parts of the last century. Also included are hand-drawn maps that speculated on potential land use and maps that have been annotated in pen, sometimes accompanied by oral histories. The museum will partner with the City of Homer and the Homer Public Library to complete digitization and online cataloging. The maps will be publicly accessible on both the museum and library websites.