Greater Boston, 1909

At 204 by 141 centimeters, this Walker Lithograph Company map is large enough to paper a wall. Recreation areas are printed in green, and the harbor carries a teal wash that distinguishes water from land at a glance. The scale of roughly 1:14,400 is fine enough to read street names in every suburb from Cambridge to Dorchester. Boston had annexed most of its neighbors by this point, and the map reflects the consolidated city. A single political unit sprawling across what had been a dozen independent towns.

  • The green-shaded recreation areas; the park system Frederick Law Olmsted designed two decades earlier is traced in green.
  • The teal harbor wash; the waterfront runs from Charlestown around to South Boston. The wharves are still dense.
  • Any suburb, Cambridge, Roxbury, Dorchester, is legible down to individual street names at this scale.

All prints are high-quality reproductions made from museum-grade scans at 300 DPI. Depending on the original scan dimensions, some prints may include white fill along the edges.

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