Bird's Eye View of Boston Harbor Along the South Shore to Provincetown – Vintage Map Wall Art
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Step back in time with Bird's Eye View of Boston Harbor Along the South Shore to Provincetown, a historic image rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Bird's Eye View of Boston Harbor Along the South Shore to Provincetown
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Rather than a single harbor scene, this print carries the eye from Boston's crowded waterfront south along the South Shore and out to Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod, all within one sweeping frame. Bird's-eye views like this were popular in the nineteenth century, when artists drew coastlines from an imagined height so viewers could take in harbors, villages, and shipping routes at a glance. The elevated perspective compresses distance, so towns and headlands appear in close detail while the open water between them reminds us how much coastal travel and trade depended on these waters.
| Original scan | 8,112 × 6,632 px · prints to 27 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | pm020390 Bird's eye view of Boston Harbor along the South Shore to Plymouth, Cape Cod Canal, and Provincetown in colors showing all steamboat routes. |
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