Minots Ledge off Boston Harbor : showing the proposed site of a light ...
Beneath Our Feet: Mapping of the features beneath the ocean’s surface began in Europe in the late-16th century, with cartographers using simple symbols such as soundings (numbers that indicate depth in fathoms)... More
This harbour of Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
Although undated, this earliest surviving plan of Boston Harbor dates from the period of Sir Edmund Andros' term as governor of New England from 1685-1689. It is most likely one of several manuscript maps of Ne... More
[Plan of farm lands in Chelsea belonging to the Bill family]
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A draught of Boston Harbor by Capt. Cyprian Southake
The 1694 copy of Southack's original chart was made by Augustine Fitzhugh. Boston Public Library copy is an exact duplicate, with exception of title and north point, of Boston Harbor in New England, 1689(?), in... More
Pvgna navalis in ipsis faucibus freti Öresund Svecos inter et Belgas ...
View of the Battle of the Sound between Sweden and the Dutch Republic in 1658. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A plan of the town and harbour of Boston, and the country adjacent wit...
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[Map of eastern Massachusetts and vicinity] - Vintage map, Norman B. L...
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The town of Boston in New England - Public domain map
Made in Boston: Bonner's map depicts Boston before centuries of landfill transformed its coastline. His distinctive design combines plan and perspective views to convey maximum information and achieve decorativ... More
Boston over Time - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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Plan of corner of Centry & Beacon St's -- 1741
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A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America, with ...
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Particular draughts and plans of some of the principal towns and harbo...
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[Land division survey of Duxbury and Pembroke, MA]
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Georges Louis le Rouge - Plan de Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leven...
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Plan de la ville de Boston et ses environs
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Grundriss von der stadt Boston und ihren gegenden
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A plan of the town of Boston, in New-England, distinguishing that part...
Plan of the city of Boston, showing the part of the city near the Old Wharf that was destroyed by fire. Street names are labeled. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Carta rappresentante il porto di Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leven...
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Plan de la ville et du port de Boston : capitale de la Nouvelle Anglet...
Displayed here is the first state of Lattre's plan of Boston. The plan here was also separately issued. Describing Boston in the years before the American Revolutionary war, the plan includes information on sho... More
Plan de la ville de Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collecti...
Published for a French audience, this small, page-sized map depicts Boston and Charlestown. The legend identifies fortifications, churches, and other public buildings. Although unsigned, this plan is similar to... More
Plan de la ville de Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collecti...
Published for a French audience, this small, page-sized map depicts Boston and Charlestown. The legend identifies fortifications, churches, and other public buildings. Although unsigned, this plan is similar to... More
A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America, with ...
After Bonner's death in 1726, his partner William Price assumed sole ownership of the Boston plan, which he reissued several times over the next 40 years. Facing competition from William Burgis' attractive plan... More
Chart of Plymouth Bay - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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Chart of Plymouth Bay - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
The chief product produced in colonial New England was dried cod. As a result, permanent, residential fishing settlements were established throughout New England in the 17th century, including one at Plymouth, ... More
Chart of Plymouth Bay - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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A plan of Becket protracted by a scale of 120 rods to an inch
Plan of Becket Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A new and accurate plan of the town of Boston in New England : A new p...
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A chart of the coast of New England, from Beverly to Scituate harbour,...
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A map of 100 miles round Boston - Public domain old map
Map of one hundred miles round Boston Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A chart of the harbour of Boston nautical chart
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The seat of war in New England, by an American volunteer : with the ma...
Plan of Boston Harbour, from an actual survey | Plan of the town of Boston with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June, 1775 Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A front view of the lines taken from the advanced post near Browns hou...
A view of the harbour of Boston taken from Fort Hill | A view of Boston from Dorchester Neck Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Thirty-miles round Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collectio...
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Exact plan of General Gage's lines on Boston Neck in America
General Gage's fortifications on Boston Neck, in the year 1775 Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A view of the country towards Dorchester, taken from the advanced work...
Long Island open on the north side of Nicks Mate Island | Boston from Willis Creek Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A chart of the harbour of Boston nautical chart
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A chart of the harbour of Boston nautical chart
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A chart of the harbour of Boston nautical chart
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A new and correct plan of the town of Boston, and provincial camp
Published in the July 1775 issue of the Pennsylvania Magazine or American Monthly edited by Thomas Paine, this was the earliest printed depiction of Boston after the battle at Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775. The in... More
Plan of the town of Boston and circumjacent country shewing the presen...
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Situations plan der Englischen Armée vor und um Boston nebst der stel...
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Powder horn with map of Boston and Charlestown, 1777
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Carte von dem Hafen und der Stadt Boston : mit den umliegenden Gegende...
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A view of Boston taken on the road to Dorchester
We Are One: This 1776 landscape scene, published in the maritime atlas The Atlantic Neptune, depicts Boston as it appeared to a person approaching the town from the south. Shepherds tend their flocks in the for... More
[Coast of New England from Chatham Harbor to Naragansett Bay]
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A chart of Boston Bay and vicinity nautical chart
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An accurate map of the country round Boston in New England from the be...
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[A chart of Boston Bay and vicinity] nautical chart
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Die gegend um Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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Coast of Massachusetts from Cape Ann to Manomet Point, including north...
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A chart of the Harbour of Boston, with the soundings, sailing-marks, a...
Beneath Our Feet: The oldest surviving charts depicting the Mediterranean Sea date to the 13th century; however, these earliest maps created by mariners for navigational purposes did not reflect features beneat... More
[Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound] - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal C...
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Carte du port et havre de Boston avec les côtes adjacentes, dans laqu...
Highlighted on this fine topographic map of Boston and vicinity are the British and American troops. The American troops are colored red -- the first corps in Cambridge, the second corps opposite Charlestown ne... More
[Chart of Nantucket Island and the eastern half of Martha's Vineyard]
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Coast of Massachusetts from Cape Ann to Manomet Point, including north...
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Boston, seen between Castle Williams and Governor's Island, distant 4 ...
Appearance of the high lands of Agameticus, N.E. with Penobscot Hills, to the eastwards, at 3 to 4 leagues off shore | Boston Bay, the light house bearing N.W.b.W distant one league | The entrance of Boston Har... More
Carte des environs de Boston, capitale de la Nlle. Angleterre en Ameri...
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Boston, its environs and harbour, with the rebel works raised against ...
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A plan of Boston in New England with its environs : including Milton, ...
This most important battle plan of the New England theater of war shows, in detail, the American fortifications on Dorchester Heights forcing the British to leave Boston in 1776. This was the best printed plan ... More
Plan of the town of Boston with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peni...
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Prospect der König Strasse gegen das land thor zu Boston = Vuë de la...
Print shows view of King Street in Boston, Massachusetts. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A view of Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
Viewing Boston from the ocean was not a novel concept originated by 19th century bird’s eye view artists. This Revolutionary War era landscape scene, published with a collection of nautical charts, depicted Bos... More
Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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An accurate map of Rhode Island, part of Connecticut and Massachusets,...
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A new and accurate map of the colony of Massachusets Bay, in North Ame...
New and accurate map of the colony of Massachusetts Bay Courtesy of Boston Public Library
[Coast of New England from Chatham Harbor to Naragansett Bay]
This chart of the southern coasts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island is representative of the level of detail contained in the charts of The Atlantic Neptune. The surveys of this coastline began in 1774, and wer... More
[Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound] - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal C...
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Cape Poge bearing S 52°E, distant 2 miles : Sandy Point bearing W S W ...
Sandy Point bearing W S W distant four miles | Gay Head bearing N E 1/4 E and Nomansland E 1/4 S | Gay Head bearing SE distant one mile | Sankoty Head, bearing S by W, distant 10 miles | Sankoty Head bearing SW... More
Coast of New Hampshire and Massachusetts from Great Boars Head to Marb...
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Coast of New Hampshire and Massachusetts from Great Boars Head to Marb...
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A map of the province of Massachusets Bay and colony of Rhode Island, ...
Map of the province of Massachusetts Bay Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Plan of Mashpee - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
We Are One: This manuscript survey sketch provides an early example of the treaties between American leaders and native peoples that designated land for their use. Gideon Hawley, a Christian missionary to the M... More
[Plan of Boston neck] - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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Boston with its environs - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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A plan of the action at Bunkers Hill on the 17th of June 1775 between ...
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A plan of the action at Bunkers Hill on the 17th of June 1775 between ...
Page, an English military engineer who served as aide de campe to General Howe during the action, prepared this detailed plan of the Battle of Bunker Hill. It is the best known and most commonly reproduced plan... More
A chart of Nantucket Shoals - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collect...
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A plan of Boston, from actual survey
This post-Revolutionary War map of Boston was the first of its kind printed in over half a century. It was the first time that a map showed the updated Boston's streets and topography since John Bonner and Will... More
Massachusetts - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
Erdbeschreibung von Amerika Courtesy of Boston Public Library
A plan of the action at Breeds Hill, on the 17th of June 1775 : betwee...
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[Plan of the land at Prince Street and Snowhill Street, Boston]
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A chart of Nantucket Shoals - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collect...
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The state of Massachusetts from the best information
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A plan of the Pitts Farm in Chelsea - Public domain map
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A map of Massachusetts - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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Plan of Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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The state of Massachusetts : compiled from the best authorities
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[Plan of Salem Common] - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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A plan of a survey of Noddles Island
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A plan of Hatfield - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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Course of canal to Charlestown Millpond - Vintage map, Norman B. Leven...
This manuscript survey describes the course of the final 2.25 miles of the Middlesex Canal, terminating in the Charlestown Millpond. Distances are marked off in rods, and property owners indicated, as are locks... More
Map of Massachusetts proper - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collect...
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A plan of Boston, from actual survey
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Massachusetts - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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Chart of the harbours of Salem, Marblehead, Beverly, and Manchester : ...
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Boston with its environs - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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A new plan of Boston : drawn from the best authorities with the latest...
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Manuscript plan of the Bulfinch Triangle, Boston, MA : [sheet 2]
Land indenture and manuscript map authorizing and illustrating one of Boston's first major land reclamation projects in the so-called Mill Pond. Map illustrates the creation of the "Bulfinch Triangle,"construct... More
Manuscript plan of the Bulfinch Triangle, Boston, MA : [text]
Land indenture and manuscript map authorizing and illustrating one of Boston's first major land reclamation projects in the so-called Mill Pond. Map illustrates the creation of the "Bulfinch Triangle,"construct... More
Plan of Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection
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