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Source Description
Shows town and county boundaries, railroad stations, villages, ordinary post offices, money order post offices, and county towns; nine named standard-gauge railroads or systems, distinguished by color and hatching; and five narrow-gauge railroads.
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Document identity
localId
x059cc812
label
Map of the railroads of the state of Massachusetts
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
x059cc812
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Map of the railroads of the state of Massachusetts
description
Shows town and county boundaries, railroad stations, villages, ordinary post offices, money order post offices, and county towns; nine named standard-gauge railroads or systems, distinguished by color and hatching; and five narrow-gauge railroads.
date
["1900"]
year
1900
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_005591
creators
Massachusetts. Board of Railroad Commissioners
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Railroads--Massachusetts--Maps
Narrow gauge railroads--Massachusetts--Maps
Massachusetts--Maps
subjectsGeographic
Massachusetts
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
Boston
publisher
Geo. H. Walker & Co.
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
42.25
schema:longitude
-71.8333
extent
1 map : col. ; 66 x 85 cm.
notes
Shows town and county boundaries, railroad stations, villages, ordinary post offices, money order post offices, and county towns; nine named standard-gauge railroads or systems, distinguished by color and hatching; and five narrow-gauge railroads.
No graticule. Coordinates not given; calculated from data given in American atlas, 4th ed. rev. 1987.
Shows continuation of lines into New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Inset: [Boston and suburbs (Bedford to Marblehead, Dover and Norwood to Norwell and Cohasset)]. Shows same details as on main map.
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no
dcId
x059cc812
type
map
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
a061dcdbba07490c