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Source Description
Noted historian and librarian, Justin Winsor created this unique map by superimposing the outline of the original Shawmut Peninsula onto an 1880 map of Boston. It was used as the frontispiece for the first volume of his "Memorial History of Boston, Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts", published in 1882. Though drawn without the assistance of computers or aerial photographs, it remains one of the most vivid diagrams of the radical transformation and enlargement of the Shawmut Peninsula during the 19th century.
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Document identity
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x633f8662
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Boston old and new
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obj
dtoType
map
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1
Source metadata
id
x633f8662
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Boston old and new
description
Noted historian and librarian, Justin Winsor created this unique map by superimposing the outline of the original Shawmut Peninsula onto an 1880 map of Boston. It was used as the frontispiece for the first volume of his "Memorial History of Boston, Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts", published in 1882. Though drawn without the assistance of computers or aerial photographs, it remains one of the most vivid diagrams of the radical transformation and enlargement of the Shawmut Peninsula during the 19th century.
date
["1880"]
year
1880
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
05_04_000083
creators
Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Boston (Mass.)--History--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
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import
pubPlace
Boston
publisher
Heliotype Print. Co.
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
schema:latitude
42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
extent
1 map : col. ; 28 x 37 cm.
notes
Shows original shoreline and early place names and streets.
Relief shown by hachures.
Oriented with north toward the upper right.
Appears in Winsor's Memorial history of Boston, including Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Boston. 1882
On verso: index to early Boston points of interest.
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no
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x633f8662
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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