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Within two decades, landfill will erase it entirely.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe wharves along the eastern waterfront are drawn individually, each one extending like a finger into the harbor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe State House dome on Beacon Hill. 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Charles R. Parsons sketched the city before the fire, and the lithograph went to press showing Boston as it looked just before 65 acres of the commercial district burned. The view looks from the northeast, placing the busy eastern waterfront and its wharves in the foreground, with buildings fading into suggestion toward the horizon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe foreground wharves are drawn with individual buildings and cargo. The detail drops off sharply as the city recedes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe points of interest in the lower margin, each corresponding to a specific building in the drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe harbor full of sailing vessels. 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The Common and Public Garden sit at the center, with the new Back Bay grid stretching west. The burned district from 1872 has been rebuilt and expanded into a dense commercial waterfront.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe Back Bay's orderly street grid stands against the tangled colonial lanes of the original peninsula. Two centuries of city planning visible at once.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe index of points of interest keyed around the margin, each corresponding to a feature in the drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe harbor. The mix of sailing ships and steamers marks the transition between two eras of maritime commerce.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"12×18","offer_id":47271567786162,"sku":"FOLIO-9s161f868-POSTER-12x18","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/9s161f868-12x18.jpg?v=1775761473"},{"product_id":"provincetown-1910","title":"Provincetown, 1910","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eProvincetown faces northwest across Cape Cod Bay, its long finger of sand curling around one of the best natural harbors on the Atlantic coast. George H. Walker drew this view at the moment the town was shifting from a fishing economy to something new. Summer residents, painters, and writers were arriving in growing numbers. The wharves still handle fish, but the town's future lies elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe single main road running the length of the town. Commercial Street hugs the waterfront with houses packed tightly on both sides.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe Pilgrim Monument site at the center of town. The tower was under construction when this view was drawn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe fishing wharves extending into the harbor, each one drawn with individual pilings and structures.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"12×18","offer_id":47271567982770,"sku":"FOLIO-x633f932f-POSTER-12x18","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/x633f932f-12x16.jpg?v=1775761476"},{"product_id":"independence-day-1870","title":"Independence Day, 1870","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eCannon smoke rises from harbor island fortifications and a military reenactment unfolds on Boston Common. F. Fuchs drew and lithographed this Fourth of July scene at a moment when the city was visibly between eras: clipper ships still crowd the harbor, but only two steamships are visible, and the railroads that arrived in the 1830s have already undercut Boston's centuries-old shipping trade. Industries have begun to crowd the waterfront.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe cannon smoke puffing from the harbor island fortifications. Fuchs drew it as soft white clouds against the water.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe military reenactment on Boston Common, visible as formations of tiny figures on the green.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe steamships among the sailing vessels. 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This one looks southwest, deep into Roxbury. O.H. Bailey drew the view as if hovering above Washington and Shawmut Streets, looking out toward Grove Hall, Franklin Park, and Jamaica Plain. Roxbury had been annexed by Boston twenty years earlier, in 1868, and by 1888 it was a textbook streetcar suburb. Horse-drawn trolleys are visible on Harrison, Washington, Shawmut, and Tremont Streets. Forty marginal illustrations and a legend catalog roughly 110 establishments, including thirteen breweries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe Boston Baseball Grounds in the lower right corner, next to the railroad roundhouses. It's unlabeled.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe breweries in the marginal illustrations. There are thirteen, reflecting Roxbury's role as a brewing center.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe horse-drawn streetcars on Washington Street, the main artery connecting Roxbury to downtown Boston.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"12×18","offer_id":47271570473138,"sku":"FOLIO-x633fc270-POSTER-12x18","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"20×30","offer_id":47271570571442,"sku":"FOLIO-x633fc270-POSTER-20x30","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/x633fc270-12x16.jpg?v=1775761550"},{"product_id":"great-fire-burned-district-1872","title":"Great Fire Burned District, 1872","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThree weeks after Boston's Great Fire of November 9, 1872, Harper's Weekly published this bird's-eye view of the destruction. The shaded area marks roughly 60 acres of burned ground. 930 businesses, valued at $100 million, reduced to rubble. Charles R. Parsons drew from sketches he had made for Currier \u0026amp; Ives before the fire, so the city shown here is the one that was about to disappear. The view looks across the commercial district from above the harbor, smoke still implied in the pale tones of the devastated blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe burned district is marked in contrast to the surrounding intact buildings. Its boundary shows how close the fire came to the waterfront wharves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe ship masts packed into the harbor: this was the commercial heart of New England, and business had to continue even as the ruins smoldered.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe spires of the churches that survived at the fire's edge. 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Prang \u0026amp; Co. printed this chromolithograph at 47 by 64 centimeters, large enough to show individual buildings across the entire peninsula. The harbor is thick with sailing vessels and steamers, a reminder that in 1877 Boston was still as much a port city as a rail hub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe State House dome at center. 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This chromolithograph was published as a promotional piece for the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the Fall River Line Steamers. Commercial cartography designed to sell tickets. The bird's-eye perspective compresses 50 miles of coastline into a single vivid panorama, with Cape Cod curving across the horizon and the harbor islands scattered like stepping stones between the city and the open Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe steamboat routes radiating from the harbor. Each line represents a scheduled service to the islands and shore towns.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe 34 harbor islands scattered between Boston and the open ocean; many are labeled individually.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eCape Cod curves across the top of the view, with Provincetown at the far end. 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The foreground is semi-rural, trees, open fields, scattered houses, while Boston proper rises in the middle distance, its church spires and State House dome marking the skyline. The Back Bay is still unfilled tidal flat, a wide gap between the Public Garden and the far shore. This ground-level panoramic format was popular in the 1860s, offering a perspective that bird's-eye views could not: the city as a person standing on a hilltop would actually see it, during the final year of the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe unfilled Back Bay between the city proper and Brookline. 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Bert Poole's bird's-eye view, the last recorded aerial view of Boston proper, catches the city at a turning point: most buildings stand three to six stories, but several downtown structures are pushing past ten. Steam-powered vessels crowd the harbor where sailing ships once anchored. Poole, a Brockton native, produced roughly 45 bird's-eye views of New England towns between 1880 and 1905; this was his final one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe stories on the tallest buildings in the central business district. A few are already approaching the ten-story mark.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe harbor in the foreground is filled with steam vessels, their smokestacks replacing the masts of earlier views.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe approach perspective. 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