Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "7d27c920g",
    "label": "Metropolitan Transit Authority system route map",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "map",
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:7d27c920g"
}

{
    "id": "7d27c920g",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:7d27c920g",
    "contentType": "map",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Metropolitan Transit Authority system route map",
    "description": "Oriented with north to the upper left.",
    "date": "[\"[1950]\"]",
    "year": 1950,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:7d27c920g",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "1950-System-Map",
    "creators": [
        "Lufkin, Richard F. (Richard Friend)",
        "Metropolitan Transit Authority (Boston, Mass.)",
        "Buck Printing Co."
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Local transit--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps",
        "Boston (Mass.)--Maps",
        "Metropolitan Transit Authority (Boston, Mass.)"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "Boston",
        "Massachusetts",
        "North and Central America",
        "Suffolk (county)",
        "United States"
    ],
    "genreBasic": [
        "Maps"
    ],
    "typeOfResource": [
        "Cartographic"
    ],
    "country": "United States",
    "state": "Massachusetts",
    "county": "Suffolk",
    "city": "Boston",
    "iiifBase": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3Agx41q215j",
    "iiifManifest": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7d27c920g/manifest",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://bpldcassets.blob.core.windows.net/derivatives/images/commonwealth:gx41q215j/image_thumbnail_300.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3Agx41q215j/full/max/0/default.jpg",
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "pubPlace": "Boston",
    "publisher": "Metropolitan Transit Authority"
}

{
    "url": "https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/7d27c920g",
    "institutionArkId": "sf268508b",
    "collectionArkId": "41688024w",
    "schema:latitude": 42.35,
    "schema:longitude": -71.05,
    "extent": "1 map : color",
    "notes": [
        "Oriented with north to the upper left.",
        "Inset: M.T.A. lines in central Boston.",
        "Includes indexes to transit stations and places of interest.",
        "Text, schedules and continuation of index to places of interest on verso.",
        "Manuscript below edition statement on title panel: 1948 1949."
    ],
    "hasTranscription": false,
    "dcId": "7d27c920g",
    "type": "map"
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://iiif.digitalcommonwealth.org/iiif/2/commonwealth%3Agx41q215j/full/max/0/default.jpg",
    "mediaId": "747aed1531d43b7b"
}