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Source Description
Manuscript map in ink and water-color of the Charles River area between Cambridge and Boston, covering parts of Boston, Charlestown, Cambridge, Brighton, Brookline, Roxbury and Dorchester. Shows marshy areas, reservoirs, aqueducts, streets, bridges, mills and wharves. Some buildings illustrated pictorially. Shows proposed bridges and boundaries, with notes in pencil.
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Document identity
localId
4m90fp184
label
[Mill dam survey
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
4m90fp184
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
[Mill dam survey
description
Manuscript map in ink and water-color of the Charles River area between Cambridge and Boston, covering parts of Boston, Charlestown, Cambridge, Brighton, Brookline, Roxbury and Dorchester. Shows marshy areas, reservoirs, aqueducts, streets, bridges, mills and wharves. Some buildings illustrated pictorially. Shows proposed bridges and boundaries, with notes in pencil.
date
["[1850?–1859?]"]
year
1850
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_012299
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Dams--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Fills (Earthwork)--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Land use--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
City planning--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Boston (Mass.)--Maps
Cambridge (Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Middlesex (county)
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
genreBasic
Maps
Manuscripts
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
schema:latitude
42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
extent
1 manuscript map : hand-colored ; 149 x 193 cm
notes
Title in manuscript on piece of cloth attached to verso of map.
Oriented with north to the right.
hasTranscription
no
dcId
4m90fp184
type
map
Single page context
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1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
9f632aab71eb6179