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Published in 1852, the year before the Back Bay landfill project officially began.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe street grid carries individual building footprints, block by block, across the full width of the peninsula.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eEvery wharf along the eastern waterfront is drawn and labeled — Long Wharf, T Wharf, India Wharf, and dozens more stretching toward South Boston.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eDock Square sits at the junction of half a dozen streets, each one labeled. 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Slatter oriented this map with north toward the upper left, placing Boston's waterfront prominently along the bottom edge. Sixteen illustrations of major buildings fill the margins. A visual directory of the city's institutional and commercial landmarks. The map delineates individual building outlines within the street grid, making it possible to see the density of development block by block. Published the same year as McIntyre's larger wall map, the two together form a near-complete architectural census of antebellum Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe building illustrations in the margins. 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The wharves, the South End, the Back Bay, all of it reclaimed tidal flat and marsh. Early place names and streets from the colonial era are marked alongside their modern successors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe original shoreline of the Shawmut Peninsula. Everything outside that line is landfill.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe early colonial street names printed alongside their 1880 equivalents.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eNorth is toward the upper right. 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Ten engraved vignettes of buildings line the margins: Gore Hall and Dane Hall at Harvard, the Court House in East Cambridge, the New England Glass Works, C. Davenport's Car Works in Cambridgeport, and others. The map was published at a scale of 1:6,000, large enough to read individual property boundaries and the names of landowners on their lots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eGore Hall in the margin vignettes. It was Harvard's library, a Gothic Revival building that no longer stands.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe New England Glass Works in East Cambridge, one of the largest glass manufacturers in the country at the time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe railroad lines crossing the city. 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Walker printed this map at a scale that captures the full metropolitan region. 152 by 129 centimeters of Boston and its surrounding towns. Mint-green coastal waters border a cream ground crisscrossed by a bold red road network. By 1893, the streetcar had reshaped the city: dense urban blocks at the center give way to the looser pattern of residential suburbs along the transit lines radiating outward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe red road network outward from downtown. The density of routes thins as you move into the suburbs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe coastline rendered in mint green; the tidal estuaries reach surprisingly far inland.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe railroad lines converging on the city center. 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The French title and elegant hand coloring in soft green and pink reflect European fascination with the colonial port city. Soundings fill the harbor, a ward index labels each neighborhood, and the street plan captures Boston at its pre-war peak. Compact, prosperous, and still connected to the mainland by the narrow Boston Neck. Lattre was working from the best available surveys, and the result is one of the most detailed views of the city in the years before everything changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe harbor soundings are written in fathoms, marking where ships could safely anchor and where the shoals began.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe ward index listing each of Boston's neighborhoods, a snapshot of the city's internal geography before the Revolution.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eBoston Neck at the southern edge. 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Wightman and engraved by C.A. Swett for the Boston Engineering Department, this map orients north toward the upper right and measures distances in concentric circles from City Hall. At a scale of 1:6,000, every block and wharf is legible. The pastel ward colors, pink, blue, green, are administrative, not decorative, dividing the city into the political units that determined taxation and representation. Insets cover South Boston and East Boston at matching detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe concentric circles radiate from City Hall. 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Published at E.P. Dutton's Boston Map Store, the map lays out proposed harbor improvements with radiating lines extending into the bay. The dark blue harbor fill contrasts sharply with the warm land tones, making the proposals visually unmistakable. In 1867, Boston was actively reshaping its coastline. The Back Bay fill was underway, and planners were debating how far the city could extend into the water.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe radiating lines in the harbor are proposed improvements, not existing structures. 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