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Source Description
Covers also parts of adjacent towns and cities, including all of Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline.
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Document identity
localId
9s161c49q
label
Map of the city of Boston, for 1893
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
9s161c49q
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Map of the city of Boston, for 1893
description
Covers also parts of adjacent towns and cities, including all of Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline.
date
["[1893]"]
year
1893
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_004698
creators
Sampson, Murdock & Co
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Boston (Mass.)--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
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Boston
publisher
Sampson, Murdock, & Co.
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
schema:latitude
42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
extent
1 map : hand col. ; 83 x 68 cm.
notes
Covers also parts of adjacent towns and cities, including all of Cambridge, Somerville, and Brookline.
"Published expressly for the Boston directory."
In lower right margin: Heliotype Printing Co.
Shows radial distances from City Hall.
Circles drawn at 1/2 mile intervals.
These are all printed from the same plate, corrected from year to year, but vary slightly in dimensions, owing to shrinkage, etc. of paper.
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no
dcId
9s161c49q
type
map
Single page context
seq
1
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0
type
photo
mediaId
43160c7a89ed6a02