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Photo of an I house

The American Landscape Project

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The following page is a two column layout. Page sections are identified with headers. The footer contains update, contact and emergency information.

 

instructional content

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Find Photos in the Archive

There are several ways of retrieving or viewing photos in the gallery.

Archive Categories

I House: Williamsport, Ohio

Photo of an I house near Williamsport, Ohio

The I house pictured here, is a typical example of the type of photo included in this archive.

To find this photo, you can search through the archives by key terms associated with this photo. Each photo is cataloged by architectural characteristics (I-House), regional identification (Midwest); absolute location (Williamsport, Ohio); and by one or more general categories (folk housing, agriculture). See discussion below for additional information.


Absolute Location

Each photo in this archive hs been assigned at least one indicator of the location of the photo. If precise coordinates are available, the photo is geotagged with latitude and longitude coordinates.City, county, state and ZIP code are also included in the archive when such data is available.When the actual location is unknown, an estimated location is assigned to the photo.

Region

Because this archive was originally developed as a teaching tool, regional identification tags have been added to each photo when it is reasonable to do so.

Topic

The photos in the archive have also been categorized by at least one and as many as three topics or themes.

Key Term and Title

Each photo has a title in the file name, which also frequently includes one or more key terms.

Examples:

Click any of the links below to see sample photos, along with the applied identifers.

  1. Example:Dogtrot House
  2. Example:Mega Church
  3. Example:Gas Station
  4. Example:Abandoned Factory
  5. Example: Oil Well
Contact

Dr. Steven M. Graves
Geography Department
130-B Sierra Hall
CSU Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8249

Phone: (818) 677-3517
Fax: (818) 677-2723
steve.graves@csun.edu

 

 

 

Welcome to the American Landscape Project Web Site

Old School Building: Chillicothe, Ohio

Teaching Tools

This page will function as a portal to several possible teaching links.

 

Currently there is only a flash card game intended to help students in introductory courses on American landscapes, or in introductory human geography courses test their ability to recognize a handful of common folk housing structures.

The links are below take you to the teaching tools.

 

 

Instructional Modules

Folk Housing Flash Cards

The folk housing flash cards are intended to help students charged with memorizing folk housing types, regional associations and common characteristics associated with some of the more popular American folk housing types.

Go there now.

 

Additional Modules Forthcoming

Forthcoming Links

Check back later for additional modules for students seeking to learn about the American Landscape