Historypin was a digital, user-generated archive of historical photos, videos, audio recordings and personal recollections.
[1] Where Google Street View was available, users could overlay historical photographs and compare it with the contemporary location.
[3] The website had over 200,000 assets and recollections "pinned" to the Historypin map around the world, with higher contributions in the UK, USA and Australia.
[4] The beta version of the website was launched in June 2010 at the Royal Institute in London by Nick Stanhope, CEO of Shift and the full project was launched at the Museum of the City of New York in July 2011.
Contributors included Biggleswade History Society, Bishopsgate Institute, John Lewis Partnership, Mirrorpix, New York Transit Museum, PhillyHistory.org, The Ritz Hotel, Baltimore Museum of Industry and the Science & Society Picture Library and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.