Digital and Data Humanities Summer Fellowships Cohort Archive

Mapping Northlake: Seattle’s Hinterlands in Global Perspective

This digital project is a collaboration with Roneva Keel that traces the movement of people, raw materials, and financial capital into and out of Seattle in the decades before World War II. By drawing on an array of historic and archival materials, the project reveals the dynamic relationship between a growing urban center and its hinterlands during a period of social and economic change. Through the creation of interactive maps, along with accompanying text and visual imagery, the project offers a compelling account of residential and work life, as well as capital flows and state action, in the American Northwest during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression.