Boston, Massachusetts, 1873 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Boston, Massachusetts, 1873. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: The city of Boston
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Boston, Massachusetts, 1873
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Boston in 1873 was still rebuilding from the Great Fire of November 1872, which destroyed roughly 65 acres of commercial blocks around Franklin and Milk Streets. Merchants who had lost warehouses and counting rooms were putting up new brick and granite buildings under tighter fire rules, while the wholesale dry goods and jobbing trade worked from temporary quarters. That September, a financial panic that began in New York had pressed on banks and brokers, and Boston's commercial men watched credit tighten through the autumn. Residents took pride in the Athenaeum, the Public Garden, and the city's long mercantile reputation, and many measured its recovery by how quickly the downtown filled again.
| Created / published | 1873 |
|---|---|
| Creator | parsons & atwater, currier & ives |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Boston, Massachusetts, drawn in 1873. 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 | 10,032 × 6,960 px · prints to 33 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The city of Boston |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488884 |
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