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Source Description
Compiled from manuscript maps prepared by the U.S. Coast Survey in 1847 and updated to 1854, this was one of four maps that accompanied the first report of the Commissioners on Boston Harbor and the Back Bay. The other maps provided larger scale representations of Mystic River, South Bay, the Neponset River and parts of Dorchester Bay. One of the key features of these maps was the delineation of harbor commissioners' lines as defined for 1847, with proposed revisions for 1854. These lines defined how far wharves could extend from the shore, thus helping to define the city's expanding shoreline.
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Document identity
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3f463268t
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Map of parts of Boston Harbor and its tributaries
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obj
dtoType
map
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1
Source metadata
id
3f463268t
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Map of parts of Boston Harbor and its tributaries
description
Compiled from manuscript maps prepared by the U.S. Coast Survey in 1847 and updated to 1854, this was one of four maps that accompanied the first report of the Commissioners on Boston Harbor and the Back Bay. The other maps provided larger scale representations of Mystic River, South Bay, the Neponset River and parts of Dorchester Bay. One of the key features of these maps was the delineation of harbor commissioners' lines as defined for 1847, with proposed revisions for 1854. These lines defined how far wharves could extend from the shore, thus helping to define the city's expanding shoreline.
date
["1854"]
year
1854
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_001249
creators
United States Coast Survey
L.H. Bradford & Co
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Mapping Boston Collection
Boston and New England Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Boston Harbor (Mass.)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Boston Harbor
Massachusetts
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Boston
publisher
[U.S. Coast Survey Office]
Source extras
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sf268508b
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jq086303k
schema:latitude
42.3333
schema:longitude
-70.9667
extent
1 plan ; 136 x 103 cm.
notes
Originally executed in 1847. Re-examined and additional details determined Sept. 1854.
Depths shown by soundings.
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no
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3f463268t
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map
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1
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photo
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