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Library Exhibit Visualizations

Galaxy of Ideas: Robert Lichtman Science Fiction Fanzine Collection Spring 2025 exhibit↗

A network diagram showing the connections between fanzine titles, editors, and co-editors, using materials from the Robert Lichtman Science Fiction Fanzine Collections.

Fanzine Network Diagram
A geographic visualization of the Robert Lichtman Science Fiction Fanzine Collection, showing author, title, issue, page statistics by country.

Fanzine Source Map
A data visualization showing the number of science fiction fanzine titles, authors, issues, and pages collected by Robert Lichtman yearly between 1930 and 2021.

Fanzine Collection Statistics

Bridging Bethlehem: Hill to Hill Bridge at 100 Fall 2024 exhibit ↗

Zoom into an archival image of the completed Hill to Hill Bridge, revealing additional imagery and descriptions detailing how this impressive landmark was designed and constructed.

Construction of the Hill to Hill Bridge
An image-based storymap describing the consolidation of North and South Bethlehem, and events leading to the construction of the Hill to Hill Bridge.

Bridges and Consolidation

Feathers & Folios Fall 2024 exhibit ↗

This interactive visualization zooms and pans across Audubon's The Birds of America, highlighting its artistry, scientific detail, physical scale, and the author's complex legacy.

Audubon Features
Storymap that traces the extinction of the Great Auk through historical accounts, scientific descriptions, and mapped sightings.

Great Auk
Storymap tracing confirmed and unconfirmed sightings of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, highlighting history, science, and conservation efforts across North America.

Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

Rediscovering Miles Rock Spring 2024 exhibit ↗

A geo-referenced historical map traces Miles Rock’s early life in Lancaster, PA—his childhood, schooling, and enlistment at the outset of the American Civil War.

Miles Rock: Early Life
Letters and diary entries anchor this historical map of Miles Rock’s Civil War service, revealing personal insights amid major battles and shifting military assignments.

Miles Rock: Civil War
A timeline follows Miles Rock’s Lehigh years—from student to instructor, surveyor, and first Alumni Association president—highlighting his influence on the University’s early identity.

Miles Rock: Lehigh
From Washington, D.C. to Argentina, this interactive archival map explores Miles Rock’s scientific career in astronomy, surveying, and geodesy during the postwar era of Exploration.

Miles Rock: Astronomer & Scientist
This interactive archival map follows Miles Rock’s work surveying Guatemala’s border with Mexico, a capstone to his scientific career that ended with his death abroad in 1901.

Miles Rock: Cartographer

Trees of Lehigh: A Living Legacy AY 2016 - 2017 exhibit ↗

An image-based storymap describing the consolidation of North and South Bethlehem, and events leading to the construction of the Hill to Hill Bridge.

Notable Trees and Forest Stewardship at Lehigh