MA-Cambridge-Charles River-1853 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique map of MA-Cambridge-Charles River-1853 brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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MA-Cambridge-Charles River-1853
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The Charles River at Cambridge is the subject here, so the view centers on a particular stretch of water rather than a general town scene. By 1853 the river marked the boundary between Cambridge and Boston, crossed by bridges that had carried traffic since the late eighteenth century, and the shoreline was changing from farmland and mill sites toward the streets of an incorporated city. Harvard, founded in 1636, sat about a mile inland, so the college shaped how the town appeared to anyone traveling along the water. The record offers little beyond the place and year, so the picture is best read as a snapshot of a river town in transition.
| Original scan | 1,513 × 600 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | MA-Cambridge-Charles River-1853 |
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