Maps by Jay Bowen

Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio, University of Iowa

A web map application showing the historical implementation of racial restrictive property covenants in Greater St. Louis between 1870 and 1952.

Racial Restrictions in Greater St. Louis: 1870-1952

This web map application maps 763 unique restrictive covenants or agreements (totaling 29,947 residential parcels) enacted in the City of St. Louis and 1,041 unique restrictive covenants or agreements (totalling 75,539 parcels) enacted in St. Louis County between 1870 and 1952.

A web map application showing events in the history of the University of Iowa between 1958 and 1975.

Uptight & Laid-Back: Iowa City in the 1960s

A web map application showing events in the history of the University of Iowa between 1958 and 1975.

This map helps users locate Iowa counties impacted by planned carbon pipeline construction, ordinances, litigation, and news.

Iowa Carbon Pipelines: Ordinances, Litigation, and News

This map helps users locate Iowa counties impacted by planned carbon pipeline construction, ordinances, litigation, and news. Research for this project was conducting by staff and research assistants of the Hubbell Environmental Law Initiative at the University of Iowa College of law. This application was developed by the University of Iowa Libraries' Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio. The locations of the planned pipelines were digitized by researchers at the FracTracker Alliance and appear here courtesy of Dr. Ted Auch, the Midwest Program Director of the FracTracker Alliance.

This is a map application showing major advances in printing alongside religious, political, economic, and cultural developments in the late 15th century.

Atlas of Early Printing

This is a map application showing major advances in printing alongside religious, political, economic, and cultural developments in the late 15th century.

A searchable and filterable database of over 1,500 University of Iowa International Writing Program participants since 1967.

International Writing Program Participants

A searchable and filterable database of over 1,500 University of Iowa International Writing Program participants since 1967.

An interactive map of business entries for Iowa appearing in Green Book publications between 1939 and 1966.

Tour Mid-Twentieth Century Iowa Green Books

Victor Hugo Green, a New York postal employee, founded the Negro Motorist Green Book in 1936 and published it annually for 30 years. The publication was an indispensable tool for Black motorists in the U.S., who navigated through a segregated nation during the Jim Crow era. The guide included information about restaurants, lodging, and other services considered hospitable to Black travelers. Establishments in Iowa were among those listed in the Green Book, identified in the linked interactive map.