Laura Pappalardo
Selected Work / Archival Research

Archival &
Institutional Research

01 Historical Cartography & Georeferencing Maps / Aerial Photography 02 Archival Search & Data Tools Python / Search Tooling 03 Cross-Institutional Source Mapping Multilingual Research 04 Land, Territory & Time Interactive Timelines
01

Historical Cartography &
Georeferencing

01.1 Engenharia da Colonização
Colonial-era land survey records georeferenced against contemporary satellite imagery, 1886–1939
02

Archival Search &
Data Tools

02.1 Archival Search Tool
Custom Python tool for querying institutional archive backends and repositories
03

Cross-Institutional
Source Mapping

03.1 Institutional Source Distribution
Geographic distribution of archival sources and institutional holdings
04

Land, Territory
& Time

04.1 São Paulo é Terra
São Paulo é Terra — land and territory over time, aerial photography research

Research capabilities

Institutional archives & finding aids
Manuscript processing (Yale)
Historical cartography
Georeferencing
Aerial photography analysis
Colonial-era survey records
Cross-institutional source-tracing
Brazilian institutional archives
Multilingual research (PT/EN/ES/FR)
Python & search tooling

Available for archival research, institutional source-tracing, and historical cartography.