Boston, Massachusetts, 1879 – Antique Wall Map
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Boston, Massachusetts, 1879 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: The city of Boston 1879
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Boston, Massachusetts, 1879
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Boston in 1879 was a city of nearly 360,000 people, and its map shows a downtown still packed with shops, counting rooms, and wholesale houses on the old peninsula. The shoe and clothing trades that had long made the city prosperous were gradually shifting toward larger factories and wider markets, and the harbor, East Boston ferries, and rail terminals kept goods moving. Residents of the period were also watching newer technologies arrive, including the telephone, which was just beginning to link offices and households in the city. Many Bostonians regarded their city as the intellectual center of New England, citing its colleges, its publishers, and the Athenaeum as proof of that standing.
| Created / published | 1879 |
|---|---|
| Creator | riverside press (cambridge, mass.), armstrong & co. (boston, mass.), bailey, o. h. (oakley hoopes), hazen, j. c. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Boston, Massachusetts, drawn in 1879. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--Massachusetts |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 13,567 × 8,887 px · prints to 45 × 30 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The city of Boston 1879 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488885 |
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