Boston, Massachusetts, 1870 – 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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This antique map of Boston, Massachusetts, 1870 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye view of Boston, United States
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Boston, Massachusetts, 1870
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Boston in 1870 was a city of roughly 250,000 people, crowded onto a peninsula that had been filled out over the previous two decades. Its economy rested on shipping, shoe and clothing manufacturing, printing, and banking, with the wharves along the harbor and the rail yards at the South and West Ends carrying goods in and out. The Back Bay was still being filled with gravel from the Needham hills, and the new neighborhood's grid of streets was slowly appearing on the marsh. Residents would have known the city for its State House on Beacon Hill, its Common, and its civic ambition, which had recently produced new public buildings and water works after the Cochituate supply was brought in during the 1850s.
| Created / published | 1870 |
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| Creator | sulman, t. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Boston, Massachusetts, drawn in 1870. 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 | 5,975 × 3,947 px · prints to 20 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye view of Boston, United States |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488883 |
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