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Source Description
Although published in 1847, this chart of Boston Harbor was based on much earlier surveys - a U.S. Navy survey of 1817 and British surveys from the Revolutionary War period. The American Coast Pilot, in which the chart appeared, was first published in 1796 by Edmund March Blunt of Newburyport. He and his sons published 21 editions of the Pilot up to 1861. This commercially published guide became a standard navigational aid for American coastal waters during the first half of the 19th century, when it was replaced by federally-funded charts produced by the U.S. Coast Survey.
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Document identity
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3f4632294
label
Boston Harbour
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obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
3f4632294
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Boston Harbour
description
Although published in 1847, this chart of Boston Harbor was based on much earlier surveys - a U.S. Navy survey of 1817 and British surveys from the Revolutionary War period. The American Coast Pilot, in which the chart appeared, was first published in 1796 by Edmund March Blunt of Newburyport. He and his sons published 21 editions of the Pilot up to 1861. This commercially published guide became a standard navigational aid for American coastal waters during the first half of the 19th century, when it was replaced by federally-funded charts produced by the U.S. Coast Survey.
date
["1847"]
year
1847
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
English
identifierLocal
06_01_001243
creators
Blunt, Edmund, 1799-1866
Hooker, W.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Mapping Boston Collection
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Maritime Charts and Atlases
subjects
Nautical charts--Massachusetts--Boston Harbor
Boston Harbor (Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston Harbor
Massachusetts
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
New York
publisher
E. & G.W. Blunt
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
jq086303k
schema:latitude
42.3333
schema:longitude
-70.9667
extent
1 chart ; 21 x 26 cm.
notes
Depths shown by soundings.
Relief shown by hachures.
"Engraved for The American Coast Pilot. 15th Ed."
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no
dcId
3f4632294
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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ca5199443ab3b1c6