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Source Description
This inventive city map of London includes tiny facades of landmarks and prominent buildings such as Kensington Palace, Trafalgar Square, railway stations, wharfs, and the Houses of Parliament. The map is undated, but its time frame can be deduced from several clues. Because the map shows the Hungerford Bridge, built in 1845, but not Waterloo Station, built in 1848, it must have been printed between these two dates. Victorian London is laid out here in all its industrial triumph and tragedy. New steam railways (black solid lines) snake into the city from the edges of the map, while the orphanages, hospitals, and asylums, set aside for society's outcasts, are scattered throughout the city.
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Document identity
localId
x633f9358
label
Rock's illustrated map of London
core
obj
dtoType
map
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
x633f9358
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Rock's illustrated map of London
description
This inventive city map of London includes tiny facades of landmarks and prominent buildings such as Kensington Palace, Trafalgar Square, railway stations, wharfs, and the Houses of Parliament. The map is undated, but its time frame can be deduced from several clues. Because the map shows the Hungerford Bridge, built in 1845, but not Waterloo Station, built in 1848, it must have been printed between these two dates. Victorian London is laid out here in all its industrial triumph and tragedy. New steam railways (black solid lines) snake into the city from the edges of the map, while the orphanages, hospitals, and asylums, set aside for society's outcasts, are scattered throughout the city.
date
["1845"]
year
1845
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
05_04_000182
creators
Rock Brothers & Payne
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Urban Maps
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
Metropolitan areas--England--London
London (England)--Maps
subjectsGeographic
England
Europe
London
genreBasic
Maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
England
city
London
thumbnailUrl
largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
London
publisher
Rock & Co.
Source extras
institutionArkId
sf268508b
collectionArkId
9s1621613
schema:latitude
51.514248
schema:longitude
-0.093145
extent
1 map ; 61 x 49 cm.
notes
Exhibited in “Faces and Places,” at the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, October 2003 - September 2004. MB (BRL)
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no
dcId
x633f9358
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map
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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