Bird's Eye View of Boston Harbor and South Shore to Provincetown – Historic Map Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Bird's Eye View of Boston Harbor and South Shore to Provincetown, preserved in this historic image. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Bird's Eye View of Boston Harbor and South Shore to Provincetown
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The view stretches from the crowded waterfront of Boston Harbor down the South Shore and out to Provincetown at the tip of Cape Cod, so one sheet covers a coastline of many towns and harbors. Bird's-eye views like this were popular in the nineteenth century because they let viewers take in a whole region at once, as if looking down from a hilltop or a rising balloon. Colored prints of this kind were often made to document a place's growth and to appeal to residents and travelers who wanted a picture of their home waters. Look closely at the harbor islands and the crowded wharves to see how much detail the artist packed into the scene.
| Original scan | 9,072 × 8,828 px · prints to 30 × 29 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | ct002294Bird's eye view of Boston Harbor and South Shore to Provincetown showing steamboat routes. |
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