Bird's-eye map of the Charles River – Antique Wall Map
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
Step back in time with Bird's-eye map of the Charles River, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Bird's-eye map of the Charles River
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Rather than a street-level view, this map sets the Charles River in its full course, drawn from above as if the observer were looking straight down on the water and the land it cut through. Bird's-eye maps like this were popular in the nineteenth century because they let viewers grasp a city's layout and its waterfront at a glance, with buildings, bridges and shorelines rendered in recognizable form. The Charles, which winds from its source near Hopkinton to Boston Harbor, shaped where the early town grew, where mills and wharves rose, and how the Back Bay was later filled. Looking at it now, the map is a useful record of how the river and the city's edges looked before much of that land was reshaped.
| Original scan | 8,256 × 6,296 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 06_01_002353 |
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