Massachusetts Atlas Plate No. 11: Martha's Vineyard map – Vintage Map Wall Art
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Massachusetts Atlas Plate No. 11: Martha's Vineyard map comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Massachusetts Atlas Plate No. 11: Martha's Vineyard map
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Martha's Vineyard is an island, so this plate from a Massachusetts atlas shows a place that sits well outside the Cape Cod region its gallery board suggests. Atlas plates of this kind were engraved and printed to record property lines, roads, and town boundaries, often with the names of landowners placed on their holdings. Island maps from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are useful to researchers because they capture the layout of farms, villages, and shoreline before much later development. Notice the fine lettering and the way the coastline is drawn, since those details show the mapmaker's care and the standards of commercial cartography of the period.
| Original scan | 11,306 × 7,968 px · prints to 38 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | Plate 11 1891 MV |
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