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1925 Walker Map or Plan of Boston, Massachusetts

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1925 Walker Map or Plan of Boston, Massachusetts

IndexedBoston-walker-1925


Title


Indexed Map of Boston.
  1925 (undated)     29 x 29 in (73.66 x 73.66 cm)     1 : 14400

Description


This is a beautiful c.1925 map or plan of the city of Boston, Massachusetts and its surroundings, by the Walker Lith. and Pub. Co. It covers the city and suburbs of Boston from Forest Hills and Franklin Field north to Charleston and East Boston and from Jamaica Pond east as far as Fort Independence and Castle Island. The map is extremely detailed and notes individual streets, neighborhood, parks, ponds, bridges, buildings, lakes, cemeteries, roads, railways, islands, rivers and a host of additional topographical features. This map was Published by the Walker Lith. and Pub. Co., Boston.

Cartographer


George Hiram Walker (January 4, 1852 - November 14, 1927) was a Boston based publisher of books, views, and maps active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Springfield, Vermont, Walker started his life as a dry goods merchant but developed an active interest in publishing during the early 1870s. Walker began publishing in 1878 when he partnered with an unknown New York Firm. Two years later, Walker brought the operation in house by partnering with his brother, Oscar W. Walker, in the opening of a lithography studio at 81 Milk Street, Boston. Shortly thereafter the firm expanded to new offices at 160 Tremont Street, Boston. The Walker brothers produced a large corpus of works, most of which focused on travel and tourism in New England. Walker also established the Walker-Gordon Milk Laboratory with Dr. Thomas Morgan Rotch and Gustave Gordon. This interesting investment was based on the premise that infant deaths could be avoided by providing higher quality milk. The company eventually became a great success, producing a high-quality cow milk that closely resembled human breast milk. In the process the Walker-Gordon laboratory developed many of the dairy health standards that are still with us today. Walker married Irene L. Loud on March 25, 1885. More by this mapmaker...

Condition


Very good. Minor wear along original fold lines, including minor holes and rips at fold intersections.