Federal HOLC "Redlining" Map, Hartford area, 1937

Click colored regions to view pages from the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) appraisal report, which this federal agency created with local lenders to evaluate the "trend of desirability" in residential areas in Hartford and over 200 other cities during the late 1930s. The HOLC color-coded map portrayed the highest grade (A) in green and the lowest grade (D) in red. This government agency considered not only housing conditions but also the "social status of the population," and downgraded neighborhoods with non-white, immigrant, and poor residents. In later decades, these actions became associated with the discriminatory practice of "redlining." See also the two original maps (Hartford-West Hartford and East Hartford), the full appraisal report, and a searchable spreadsheet. Read more in On The Line.

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HOLC Areas, 1937

Sources

How to Cite

Residential Security Maps (Hartford-West Hartford and East Hartford) and Area Descriptions for Hartford area, Connecticut, 1937. Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, box 64, City Survey Files, Record Group 195: Records of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, National Archives II, College Park, Maryland.

1934 Connecticut Aerial Photography provided by the Connecticut State Library

2008 NAIP Imagery Provided by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection

APA 6th Edition

University of Connecticut Libraries Map and Geographic Information Center - MAGIC. (2012). Federal HOLC "Redlining" Map, Hartford area, 1937. Retrieved from http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/otl/doclink_holc.html.

Chicago 16th edition [author-date]

University of Connecticut Libraries Map and Geographic Information Center - MAGIC. 2012. "Federal HOLC "Redlining" Map, Hartford area, 1937." Accessed June 19. http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/otl/doclink_holc.html.

MLA 7th edition

"Federal HOLC "Redlining" Map, Hartford Area, 1937." University of Connecticut Libraries Map and Geographic Information Center - MAGIC . Web. 19 June 2012. <http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/otl/doclink_holc.html>.

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Credits
Project Lead: Aerial Photography Map Interface Design and Development Jack Dougherty (Trinity College)
Project Management and Interface Design Curtis Denton (Connecticut State Data Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries MAGIC)
Project Management and Interface Design Cary Lynch (Connecticut State Data Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries MAGIC)
Map Interface Development Tom Bachant (Connecticut State Data Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries MAGIC)
Shapefile and KML Development George Bentley (Connecticut State Data Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries MAGIC)
Map Interface Development and Imagery Testing Michael Howser (Connecticut State Data Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries MAGIC)
Aerial Photography Digitization Project Manager Bill Miller (Connecticut State Data Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries MAGIC)
Shapefile and KML Development Jonathan Pollak (Connecticut State Data Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries MAGIC)
Developing Dual Map Interface WMS code Benjamin Spaulding (GIS Doctor)
Aerial Photography Mosaicing and Digitization Josh Strunk (Connecticut State Data Center at the University of Connecticut Libraries MAGIC)

Project Funding
Funding for this project was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website do not necessarily represent those of the NEH.

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Federal HOLC "Redlining" Map, Hartford area, 1937

Project Lead: Aerial Photography Map Interface Design and Development

Project Management and Interface Design

Project Management and Interface Design

Map Interface Development

Shapefile and KML Development

Map Interface Development and Imagery Testing

Aerial Photography Digitization Project Manager

Shapefile and KML Development

Developing Dual Map Interface WMS code

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