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Sherman & Smith's rail road, steam boat & stage route map of New England, New-York, and Canada

1 pp 1852

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Sketch A no. 5 showing proposed site for a light house on Sow and Pigs Reef

1 pp 1853

Relief shown by contours. Depth shown by soundings and isolines.

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Sketch of Boston Harbor and Bay

1 pp 1856

Depths shown by soundings.

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Sketch of Bunker Hill Battle

1 pp 1826

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Sketch of the Battle of Bunker Hill

1 pp 1843

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Sketch of the narrows in Boston Harbor

1 pp 1867

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Sketch of the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and parts of New Hampshire & New York exhibiting the several rail road routes completed, constructing, chartered & contemplated

1 pp 1846

General map showing drainage, cities, towns, state and county boundaries.

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Sketch of the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, and parts of New Hampshire & New York exhibiting the several rail road routes completed, constructing, chartered & contemplated

1 pp 1838

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Sketch plan showing the existing and proposed public reservations upon the banks of the Charles between Waltham line and Craigie Bridge

1 pp 1894

The Charles River was once a tidal estuary. In the 19th century, its basin was dammed for mills and encircled by factories, prisons, and slaughterhouses, all of which polluted the slow-moving river. By the 1890s, local residents demanded a change, and in 1893 the newly created Metropolitan Park Commission and the State Board of Health tasked the firm of Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot with improving the river. This map reflects Charles Eliot’s vision of tree-lined promenades, playgrounds, gymnasia, and performance spaces. The Charles River Dam, completed in 1908, made Eliot’s dream a reality, and transformed the stinking tidal estuary into a scenic waterfront park.

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