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This is the earliest detailed plan of the city of Boston published in France. Beautifully engraved and colored in the best style of French manuscript and printed maps, it shows streets, houses, public buildings, wharves, Beacon Hill, the Common, and other points of interest. Bellin, hydrographer to the King of France, published many fine maps of America under the auspices of the French Marine Office. This plan of Boston Harbor was probably copied from an English survey for use during the French and Indian War.
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3f462v34k
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Plan de la ville et du port de Boston
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map
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Source metadata
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3f462v34k
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map
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normalized
title
Plan de la ville et du port de Boston
description
This is the earliest detailed plan of the city of Boston published in France. Beautifully engraved and colored in the best style of French manuscript and printed maps, it shows streets, houses, public buildings, wharves, Beacon Hill, the Common, and other points of interest. Bellin, hydrographer to the King of France, published many fine maps of America under the auspices of the French Marine Office. This plan of Boston Harbor was probably copied from an English survey for use during the French and Indian War.
date
["[1764?]"]
year
1764
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
reuseAllowed
creative commons
language
French
identifierLocal
06_01_001209
creators
Lattré, Jean
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Mapping Boston Collection
American Revolutionary War-Era Maps
Urban Maps
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Boston (Mass.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
subjectsGeographic
Boston
Massachusetts
North and Central America
Suffolk (county)
United States
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Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
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1
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import
pubPlace
Paris
publisher
Chés Lattré
Source extras
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sf268508b
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jq086303k
schema:latitude
42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
extent
1 map : col. ; 47 x 67 cm.
notes
Hand colored.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes text, ward index, and index to points of interest.
Attributed to Bellin in Boston Engineering Department's List of maps of Boston published between 1600 and 1903.
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no
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3f462v34k
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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