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Capital of New England - one of the earliest views of Boston based on actual observation.
A View of the City of Boston the Capital of New England, in North America. / Vue de la Ville de Boston Capitale de la Nouvelle Angleterre, dans l'Amérique Septentrionale.
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This is the rare Thomas Pownall view of Boston, published in 1768. It is one of the earliest obtainable views of Boston, offering a glimpse of the city shortly after the French and Indian War (1754-1763). (more details)
One of the Earliest Obtainable Maps of the American Revolution
Map of the Environs of Boston. Drawn at Boston in June 1775. / The Remembrancer, or Impartial Repository of Public Events.
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This is the scarce 1775 first volume of John Almon's The Remembrancer, which includes one of the earliest published maps of Boston following the Battle of Bunker Hill. Almon, who was a well-connected and informed reporter on the British Parliament, placed himself in danger of being fined or imprisoned by responding to public interest in events in America and publishing this work. (more details)
Pre-landfill Boston from Telegraph Hill.
View of Boston from Telegraph Hill, S. Boston.
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This is Bernard Spindler 1854 bird's-eye view of Boston, Massachusetts. This is among the earliest and rarest published views of Boston. (more details)
Planning the Back Bay.
Plan of the Receiving Basin Showing Certain Avenues and lines of Release.
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One of the earliest published maps of the Back Bay, Boston, surveyed in 1852 in anticipation of the Back Bay Landfill. The map represents one of the earliest representations of the Back Bay, then a tidal swamp, overlaid with streets and avenues, thus part of Boston's grid. It shows the beginnings of the Back Bay Landfill efforts, as well as the beneficiaries of the project who would build enormous fortunes on the development. (more details)
Inset of Boston - first map of an English colonial city on a non-English map.
Carte Nouvelle De L'Amerique Angloise Contenant La Virginie, Maryland, Caroline, Pensylvania, Nouvelle Iorck, N. Iarsey, N.France, Et Les Terres Nouvellement Decouverte...
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An impressive large-scale Pierre Mortier 1700 map of the British Colonies in North America. The map features an important inset of Boston - the first map of a British colonial city on a non-British map (Burden). It was issued to capitalize on popular interest in King William's War (1689 - 1697). (more details)
Largest photographic view of the Great Fire of Boston.
[Great Fire of Boston Burnt District.]
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This is a mammoth plate 1872 D. W. Butterfield albumen photograph illustrating the devastation of the Great Boston Fire. It represents the largest known photograph of the Great Fire - an artifact of the photographer's unique custom-built large-format camera. (more details)
Boston Harbor with a tantalizing glimpse of Old Ironsides.
Vue de Boston.
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A striking and rare c. 1840 Garneray aquatint view of Boston Harbor teeming with ships. The bright, sunlit scene is rendered with delicate engraving and luminous gouache hand color. (more details)
'A Small Town in the City'
Hyde Park and Fairmount. In Dorchester and Milton, Norfolk Co.
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This is a rare 1860 Anson J. Stone real estate map of Hyde Park, now the southernmost neighborhood in Boston. It presents the area when it was rapidly developing as a suburban escape from crowded Boston, well-situated on two rail lines. Hyde Park was also notable at this time for its connections with the abolitionist movement and the post-Civil War civil rights movement. (more details)
Boston's expansion and urbanization.
Plan of Boston, Corrected under the Direction of...
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This is an 1866 city map of Boston produced by Nathaniel Henry Crafts, head of the Boston City Engineer's Office. It reflects the city as it had just taken on a recognizable form, with massive landfill projects in the Back Bay, South Boston, and East Boston, and an increasing number of bridges linking Boston with Cambridge and Charlestown. (more details)
An extraordinary level of detail.
Map of Boston Common and Public Garden.
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This is a 1901 George H. Walker and Co. large-format folding map of Boston Common and the Public Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the most detailed commercial map of these public spaces ever produced, recording many individual trees, floral displays, and tulip beds, among other features. (more details)
Giving hope to the revolutionary cause.
View of the Attack on Bunker's Hill, with the Burning of Charles Town, June 17, 1775.
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One of the earliest obtainable views of the 1775 American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783) Battle of Bunker Hill. Published in 1783, this view illustrates the June 17, 1775, Battle of Bunker Hill, near Boston, one of the first and most significant battles of the war. (more details)
19th century's AA.
View of the Grand Mass Washingtonian Convention on Boston Common, on the 30th of May, 1844.
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This c. 1844 Benjamin Thayer view of Boston Common depicts the May 28, 1844 Washingtonian Movement Rally, the largest Temperance Rally held in the United States up to that time. 30,000 people from various temperance organizations gathered on Boston Common to hear from Governor George N. Briggs, John B. Gough, and William K. Mitchell. (more details)
The fire that destroyed Boston.
The Great Fire at Boston, November 9th and 10th 1872.
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This is an 1872 Currier and Ives chromolithograph view of the Great Boston Fire of 1872. It is one of only a few contemporaneous views of the Boston Fire, published just days after the event depicted. (more details)
A novelty cane map from the American Legion Convention.
This is an unusual cane and map prepared in 1940 as a souvenir for the American Legion Convention on 1940. The genre of the cane map was invented by the Columbian Novelty Company in 1893 during the 1893 Columbian Exposition. This map, issued by the In-A-Cane ... (more details)
Evolution of Harvard Yard and Harvard Square.
This is Blaise Domino's large-format 1978 pictorial bird's-eye view of Harvard Square and environs in Cambridge, Massachusetts, including Harvard Yard and much of the campus of Harvard University. (more details)
Who's Who of Old Boston.
Map of Boston Common with Surrounding Streets and Adjacent Parts of Beacon Hill...
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This is Griswold Tyng's 1930 pictorial historical map of Boston Common and its surroundings in Boston, Massachusetts. (more details)
Boston in the 1850s.
Panoramic View from Bunker Hill Monument.
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This is a c. 1856 Richard Mallory and James Smillie panorama view of Boston. Measuring some 4' long, 160 locations are numerically identified, providing the viewer with an immaculately detailed work. (more details)
Shows individual buildings throughout the Boston area!
Boston Bay and Harbor Massachusetts.
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A stunning 1883 U.S. Coast Survey (USCS) nautical chart or maritime map of Boston Bay and Boston Harbor. The map covers from Marblehead to Scituate, and as far west as Cambridge. While the map is primarily a nautical chart with thousands of depth soundings ... (more details)
Early 18th century map or plan of Boston, Massachusetts.
Plan de la Ville de Boston et ses Environs.
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This is a striking 1757 Jacques-Nicolas Bellin map of Boston, Massachusetts. Coverage embraces the Shawmut Peninsula of Boston with nearby Charestown across the harbor. The isle ronde is situated along the right side with a windmill (moulin) labeled. An artillery battery protects the road into Charles Town. Sixteen locations around Boston are marked alphabetically and correspond with an index to the left. Among the locations notes are churches, three artillery batteries, and the powder magazine. Just three depth soundings are noted in Boston Harbor. (more details)
Before the Back Bay.
Boston.
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This is an 1838 Thomas G. Bradford map of Boston on the cusp of its transformation, via landfills and railroads, from a colonial port to a major metropolitan center. (more details)
Building Out Boston.
Map of Boston and the Country Adjacent, showing Rural Parks.
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This is a c. 1874 folding map of Boston, Massachusetts and environs published by Alexander Williams. It presents the city during a period when it was being completely reshaped by land reclamation, annexation, and industrialization. (more details)
Weekends on the Cape and how to get there.
Bird's Eye View of Boston Harbor and South Shore to Provincetown Showing Steamship Routes.
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This is a c. 1917 chromolithograph map and view of Boston Harbor from Boston to Provincetown published by Union News. In the late 19th and early 20th century, such views were popular travel souvenirs sold at newsstands in train and ferry stations, as well as by newsboys onboard the trains and ferries themselves. (more details)
Bird's-eye view of Boston Harbor.
Bird's Eye View of Boston Harbor Along the South Shore to Provincetown.
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This is a 1920 Union News view and map of the Boston Harbor from Boston to Provincetown. In the late 19th and early 20th century, such views were popular travel souvenirs sold at newsstands in train and ferry stations, as well as by newsboys onboard the trains and ferries themselves. (more details)
Colorful 19th century map of Boston.
Plan of Boston.
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This is an 1862 Samuel Augustus Mitchell, Jr. map of Boston, Massachusetts. Mitchell's Boston is one of the more attractive atlas maps of the city to appear in the mid 19th century. (more details)
Boston Harbor during the Roaring Twenties!
Boston Harbor.
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This is a c. 1927 George H. Walker and Company bird's-eye view map of Boston Harbor. South Boston occupies the center of the foreground, with a few major streets identified, along with Commonwealth Pier, Pleasure Bay, and Fort Independence on Castle Island. Sailing ships crowd the water between Dorchester Bay and Old Boston Harbor. East Boston, with its many wharves and airport, appear in the foreground on the left. Numerous islands dot the harbor as it stretches toward the horizon. Forts, lighthouses, and other buildings are illustrated on some of these islands. The route of the Nantasket Beach Line Steamers appears as a dashed line, along with the Main Ship Channel between Fort Revere and Boston Light. (more details)
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride.
Boston from 1630 From Wigwam to State House From Puritan to Racketeer From Calash to Automobile From Saints and Sinners to Sinners and Saints All Set Forth Diagramed and Dated. / Picture Story of the Historical Rides of Paul Revere William Dawes Dr. Prescott April 18-19, 1775.
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This is Ivan Chisholm and Robert Winn's 1947 pictorial map of Boston from 1630 to the 1940s - featuring the Midnight Ride made by Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Prescott. (more details)
A charming pictorial map of the coast of Massachusetts - features an illustration of the Gloucester Sea Serpent and several famous ships.
An Historic and Pictorial Map of Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay Including Cape Cod and Cape Ann.
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This is a 1941 Edward Rowe Snow pictorial map of Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay, and Cape Cod. The map depicts the Atlantic coast of Massachusetts from Cape Ann to Buzzards Bay and Nantucket Sound. Highly detailed, numerous locations along the Massachusetts coast are labeled and illustrated in profile, including the Custom House Tower in Boston, the Davenport Guildhall in Plymouth, and Leonard Craske's Gloucester fisherman statue on Cape Ann. More than a dozen lighthouses from Cape Ann to Buzzards Bay and on Cape Cod are illustrated in profile. Shipping routes from Boston to Yarmouth, New York, and Provincetown are marked and large ships are depicted following those routes. Two historically important clipper ships are also illustrated, the 'Northern Light' and 'Crystal Palace' along with fishing boats, lightships, and the Mayflower. The Cape Cod Canal, which was opened on July 30, 1914 (per the map) is also rendered. A vignette of 'His Majesty, the Sea Serpent' presents an unusual inclusion, though Snow informs us that the Sea Serpent was reported eighty-seven times between Gloucester and Boston in the early nineteenth century. Captions throughout the map provided by Snow inform the viewer of important and intriguing events that took place along this stretch of the East Coast of the United States. (more details)
Pictorial map of Boston created for the American Legion.
The Official American Legion Convention Map of Boston.
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This is a 1940 Richard F. Lufkin pictorial map of Boston, Massachusetts. Created for the 1940 American Legion Convention in Boston, the map depicts the city from the Fenway to India Wharf on Boston Harbor and from Cambridge to the intersection of Dartmouth Street and Columbus Avenue. Pictorial vignettes highlight landmarks, hotels, museums, and other sites around the city. Among the illustrated sites are the State House, the Old South Meeting House, the Athenaeum, Old North Church, and the Museum of Fine Arts. Numerous statues, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Alexander Hamilton, and John Winthrop are noted. Boston Common, the Public Garden, and the Fenway are all illustrated with care. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Widener Library, and the Fogg Art Museum appear across the Charles River in Cambridge. Sites located off the map, including Boston University, Boston College, and Fenway Park, are also noted, but are accompanied by arrows pointing in their general direction . A dark line traces the route of the American Legion parade from Beacon and Arlington Streets through Boston to Columbus Avenue and Clarendon Street. (more details)
A charming map of Boston compliments of the Hotel Essex.
Part of Map of Boston Proper.
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This is an 1894 George H. Walker and Company city map or plan of Boston, Massachusetts. The map depicts the central part of the city from the intersection of Columbus Avenue and Dartmouth Street to East Boston and from Charlestown to the Point Channel. ... (more details)
The ruins of Boston after the 1872 Great Fire.
Boston - General View of the Ruins, From the West Side of Washington Street - The Old South Church and the 'Transcript' Building in the Foreground.
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A dramatic journalistic view of Boston, Massachusetts, this work was prepared by Harper's Weekly to illustrate the Great Boston Fire of 1872. Issued just three weeks after the tragic fire (November 7-8, 1872), this work is one of the first publications to illustrate the fire's fury and devastation. With the Old South Church and the 'Transcript' Building in the foreground, the ruins of Boston loom in the distance, gray shells that used to be houses, businesses, and other buildings vital to the life of the city. (more details)