The city of Boston

This manuscript version of the 1879 Boston view illustrates one of the steps in the process of preparing bird's eye views. It was likely the final finished drawing used in preparing the lithographic stone. Very few such manuscript drawings have survived. In comparing the two i...

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1879
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English
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06_01_002510
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Boston Public Library
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United States
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Massachusetts
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Suffolk
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Boston
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