Boston, Massachusetts, 1905 – 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, 1905 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Twentieth century Boston
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Boston, Massachusetts, 1905
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Boston in 1905 was a city of roughly 600,000 people, and the bird's-eye view captures a community that had grown well past its old peninsula boundaries. The Charles River Dam was under construction that decade, reshaping the tidal flats where the river met the harbor, and it was a point of civic pride for engineers and city officials. Industry remained tied to the water, with ships, wharves, and manufacturing plants along the edges of the city. Many residents also measured their city against rapidly growing rivals such as New York and Chicago, and they debated how Boston could keep its place among the nation's leading ports.
| Created / published | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Creator | a.w. elson & co, poole, a. f., f. d. nichols company |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Boston, Massachusetts, drawn in 1905. 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 | 9,136 × 6,776 px · prints to 30 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Twentieth century Boston |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488889 |
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