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Displayed here is the first state of Lattre's plan of Boston. The plan here was also separately issued. Describing Boston in the years before the American Revolutionary war, the plan includes information on shoals, soundings in the harbor, and the surrounding countryside. Lattre was the Royal Engraver to Louis XVI from 1776 to 1782, and is most famous for his "Carte des Etats-Unis ...."
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Document identity
localId
cj82m019d
label
Plan de la ville et du port de Boston
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
cj82m019d
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Plan de la ville et du port de Boston
description
Displayed here is the first state of Lattre's plan of Boston. The plan here was also separately issued. Describing Boston in the years before the American Revolutionary war, the plan includes information on shoals, soundings in the harbor, and the surrounding countryside. Lattre was the Royal Engraver to Louis XVI from 1776 to 1782, and is most famous for his "Carte des Etats-Unis ...."
date
["[1764?]"]
year
1764
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
French
identifierLocal
06_01_006615
creators
Lattré, Jean
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
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
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Suffolk
city
Boston
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Paris
publisher
Chés Lattré
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
dn39z222j
schema:latitude
42.35
schema:longitude
-71.05
extent
1 map : col. ; 47 x 67 cm.
notes
Hand colored.
Relief shown pictorially.
Attributed to Bellin in Boston Engineering Department's List of maps of Boston published between 1600 and 1903.
Includes text, ward index, and index to points of interest.
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no
dcId
cj82m019d
type
map
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
099a79206d976ad4