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Source Description
This map of Boston Harbor and vicinity is one of an unrecorded pair of German engravings, originally printed in a book, pertaining to Boston. Together they present a detailed picture of the setting of the Boston Massacre and the town of Boston in the final decades of the eighteenth century. This regional map provides a detailed chart of the harbor.
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Document identity
localId
3f462x42p
label
Hafen von Boston
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
3f462x42p
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Hafen von Boston
description
This map of Boston Harbor and vicinity is one of an unrecorded pair of German engravings, originally printed in a book, pertaining to Boston. Together they present a detailed picture of the setting of the Boston Massacre and the town of Boston in the final decades of the eighteenth century. This regional map provides a detailed chart of the harbor.
date
["1780"]
year
1780
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
reuseAllowed
creative commons
language
German
identifierLocal
05_04_000068
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Mapping Boston Collection
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Boston Harbor (Mass.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Boston (Mass.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Boston Harbor
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Germany
publisher
[s.n.]
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
jq086303k
schema:latitude
42.3333
schema:longitude
-70.9667
extent
1 map ; 25 x 18 cm.
notes
Relief shown by hachures.
Mounted with Boston.
hasTranscription
no
dcId
3f462x42p
type
map
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
9fe1afe23f36050b