Boston, Massachusetts, 1899 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Boston, Massachusetts, 1899 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Boston 1899
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Boston, Massachusetts, 1899
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Boston in 1899 was a city of roughly 560,000 people, and its boundaries had widened through annexation of Roxbury, Dorchester, Charlestown, and Brighton in the decades before. The first subway in America had opened beneath Tremont Street in 1897, and electric streetcars had largely replaced the horse cars that once crawled along the same streets. Shoe and leather firms, wool merchants, and printers still drove much of the economy, while the harbor wharves handled coastal shipping and rail terminals carried goods in from across New England. Residents also took pride in the Boston Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1881, which drew audiences from throughout the region.
| Created / published | 1899 |
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| Creator | geo. h. walker & co, downs, a. e. (albert e.) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Boston, Massachusetts, drawn in 1899. 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 | 12,180 × 8,065 px · prints to 41 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Boston 1899 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488888 |
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