Boston, Massachusetts, 1880 – 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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Step back in time with Boston, Massachusetts, 1880, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: View of Boston, Massachusetts 1880
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Boston, Massachusetts, 1880
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Boston in 1880 was a city of about 363,000 people, with its newest growth spreading across the Back Bay and into the annexed districts of Roxbury, Dorchester, and Charlestown. Irish-born families made up a large share of the working population, and their parishes, saloons, and volunteer societies were becoming a visible part of city life beside the older Yankee merchant families. In November, Bostonians voted in the presidential election between Republican James A. Garfield and Democrat Winfield Scott Hancock, and Massachusetts went to Garfield, who won the national contest. Readers also followed the city's newspapers, including the Boston Globe, which had been founded in 1872 and was building a daily audience across the region.
| Created / published | 1880 |
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| Creator | beck & pauli, h.h. rowley & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Boston, Massachusetts, drawn in 1880. 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 | 12,744 × 7,152 px · prints to 42 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Boston, Massachusetts 1880 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-488886 |
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