Northfield Gems is a website designed to help prospective students and freshmen explore Division Street’s current businesses and also its deep history. The website is broken down to three parts. First part is a story map that introduces some of… Continue Reading
Our project, titled “The Tunnels”, aims to demystify the network of tunnels that runs beneath Carleton’s campus. By conducting interviews and scouring historical records, we’ve consolidated what we believe to be all available information on their history and have presented… Continue Reading
The CarlClubs is a website dedicated to the history and current state of clubs at Carleton. It intertwines both the history of former clubs and greater student entertainment and the full roster and info of currently operating Carleton clubs. The… Continue Reading
Group: Tunnel Exploration Team (MJ wanted this name) To begin with our project, we went through the Digital Collection of the Carleton Archives. From this source, we were able to compile a collection of photographs of the tunnels and the… Continue Reading
Progress Created a spreadsheet with information on all the clubs, including descriptions, location, the approximate number of members, and photos In the process of emailing club leaders to gather further necessary information(founding date, for example) Gathered info from archive source… Continue Reading
Topic A interactive web map of clubs and recreations at Carleton. Sources Clubs information: https://carleton.presence.io/organizations One of Adam’s friends who works for CarletonArchive Source Events information: https://contentdm.carleton.edu/digital/collection/Archives/id/2634 (winter ball) Process Use a Carleton map and existing software to create the… Continue Reading
The Project We’re doing a project studying the medium of microfiche. Microfiche is an outdated method of storing information – they are pieces of film which contain tiny images of documents/pictures that people wanted to save or reference in the… Continue Reading
The project topic that we want to explore is the journey of two Carleton alumni traveling in China back in the 1930s. Our topic will mainly focus on the photos found in the Carleton digital archive, and reveal the timeline… Continue Reading
Context We want to document Northfield (particularly Division street) businesses in a virtual space to allow prospective students/incoming freshmen to explore this quaint little town that will soon become their second home for the next four years. Objective Document key… Continue Reading
