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Source Description
This 1893 map was included in Charles Eliot's report to the newly formed Metropolitan Park Commission (the forerunner of the DCR). The Commission was dedicated to preserving green spaces within a ten-mile radius of Boston. Due to a surging immigrant population and chaotic development in the late 19th Century, open space was disappearing at an alarming rate. As the Commission's first landscape architect, Eliot declared " …crowded populations, if they would live in health and happiness, must have space for air, for light, for exercise, for rest, and for the enjoyment of that peaceful beauty of nature …" This topographic map illustrates the open spaces he hoped to protect.
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Document identity
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wd376704k
label
Map of the metropolitan district of Boston, Massachusetts
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
wd376704k
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Map of the metropolitan district of Boston, Massachusetts
description
This 1893 map was included in Charles Eliot's report to the newly formed Metropolitan Park Commission (the forerunner of the DCR). The Commission was dedicated to preserving green spaces within a ten-mile radius of Boston. Due to a surging immigrant population and chaotic development in the late 19th Century, open space was disappearing at an alarming rate. As the Commission's first landscape architect, Eliot declared " …crowded populations, if they would live in health and happiness, must have space for air, for light, for exercise, for rest, and for the enjoyment of that peaceful beauty of nature …" This topographic map illustrates the open spaces he hoped to protect.
date
["1893"]
year
1893
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_003031
creators
Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Recreation areas--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Open spaces--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps
Boston (Mass.)--Maps
Massachusetts--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, Mass
publisher
[Metropolitan Park Commission]
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
schema:latitude
42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
extent
1 map : col. ; 59 x 65 cm.
notes
Relief shown by contours.
"Contour interval 20 feet."
From: House No. 150, Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners, January, 1893.
"Dated January 2d 1893."
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no
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wd376704k
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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2a51434587ba89b7