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Source Description
A pictorial map of the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts in the 1920s with humorous depictions of student life at Wellesley college. The map is bordered on the left and right by two twin towers featuring ten vignettes of campus sites and personalities. A cartouche in the upper right of map is flanked by a woman with a tennis racket and a woman in commencement dress. Above the cartouche is the Wellesley college seal and motto.
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Document identity
localId
2r370940p
label
A newe mapp of Wellesley
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
2r370940p
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
A newe mapp of Wellesley
description
A pictorial map of the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts in the 1920s with humorous depictions of student life at Wellesley college. The map is bordered on the left and right by two twin towers featuring ten vignettes of campus sites and personalities. A cartouche in the upper right of map is flanked by a woman with a tennis racket and a woman in commencement dress. Above the cartouche is the Wellesley college seal and motto.
date
["[ca. 1926]"]
year
1926
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_018858
creators
Garfield, Alva Scott
May, Elizabeth Paige
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
David Judkins Weaver Papers
subjects
Wellesley (Mass.)--Maps
Wellesley College
subjectsGeographic
Massachusetts
Norfolk (county)
North and Central America
United States
Wellesley
genreBasic
Maps
genreSpecific
Pictorial maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Norfolk
city
Wellesley
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
[Wellesley, Mass.?] ; Boston
publisher
Alva Scott Mitchell and Elizabeth Paige May ; The Tudor Press
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
schema:latitude
42.2833
schema:longitude
-71.2833
extent
1 map : color ; 43 x 57 cm, on sheet 55 x 74 cm
notes
This is one of the earliest pictorial maps by Alva Scott Mitchell who subsequently worked under her married name, Alva Scott Garfield.
Both artists graduated from Wellesley College in 1924.
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no
dcId
2r370940p
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map
Single page context
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1
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0
type
photo
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d596033024f683ab