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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":"shawmut-peninsula-1880","title":"Shawmut Peninsula, 1880","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eJustin Winsor, historian and librarian, superimposed the outline of the original Shawmut Peninsula onto an 1880 map of Boston. The result shows exactly how much land the city manufactured. The original colonial shoreline cuts through blocks that by 1880 were densely built. 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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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":"greater-boston-1893","title":"Greater Boston, 1893","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eGeorge H. 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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New blocks of brownstones extend west from the Public Garden in a strict grid, while trains thread through the city on five separate rail lines. L. 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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Published by the Photo-Electrotype Company at 171 Devonshire Street, this folding guide is packed with advertisements and illustrations that blur the line between cartography and commercial directory. The verso carries a bird's-eye view of Boston Harbor, a separate map of Boston proper, and still more ads.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eCity Hall sits at the center of the concentric distance circles, each ring marking a half-mile increment from the civic core.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe verso. It carries a separate bird's-eye view of Boston Harbor alongside a second map of Boston proper.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe advertisements filling the margins; they catalog the businesses of 1880s Boston as precisely as the streets do.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"12×18","offer_id":47271585120434,"sku":"FOLIO-7940bf63z-POSTER-12x18","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/7940bf63z-12x16.jpg?v=1775761945"},{"product_id":"plymouth-1882","title":"Plymouth, 1882","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eTown Brook runs through the center of Plymouth, and six major factories line its banks. O.H. Bailey's bird's-eye view approaches from the northeast across Cape Cod Bay, echoing the Mayflower's path, but the town it reveals has moved well past the Pilgrim story. Iron foundries, tack and rivet works, boot and shoe shops, and woolen mills dominate the economy. Vignettes of six factories along the lower margin reinforce the point: Plymouth in 1882 is an industrial town that happens to contain Plymouth Rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eTown Brook from the harbor inland, passing factory complexes numbered 22 through 30 along its course.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003ePlymouth Rock in the legend. 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O.H. Bailey's bird's-eye view identifies over 100 structures in its legend, predominantly factories and commercial enterprises: seven tool factories, six woolen mills, five jewelry businesses. The oval reservoir called the Cove sits at the city's center, and vignettes of the Harris-Corliss Steam Engine Works and Nicholson File Company, both claiming world-class status, anchor the margins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe oval Cove reservoir near the city center; it served as Providence's geographic and visual anchor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe Harris-Corliss Steam Engine Works in the vignettes. 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Two mill illustrations anchor the lower margin, documenting the industrial base of a city that had shifted from shipbuilding to manufacturing over the course of the nineteenth century. Pole, who produced roughly 45 views of New England towns, drew Newburyport with the same precision he would bring to his final work. The 1905 view of Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe two mill illustrations at the bottom of the view; their smokestacks are traceable to locations along the river.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe harbor wharves along the Merrimack; their scale contrasts with the residential streets behind them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe index to points of interest catalogs the churches, schools, and public buildings scattered through the grid.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"12×18","offer_id":47271585906866,"sku":"FOLIO-9s161d552-POSTER-12x18","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18×24","offer_id":47211024908466,"sku":"FOLIO-9s161d552-POSTER-18x24","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/9s161d552-12x16.jpg?v=1775761981"},{"product_id":"downtown-boston-1896","title":"Downtown Boston, 1896","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eAt 134 by 102 centimeters and a scale of 1:2,400, this is a wall map built for the office, not the pocket. Geo. W. Stadly \u0026amp; Co. mapped the central business district block by block, with an index to streets and places of interest. North is oriented toward the upper left. The color coding, red, gold, and green blocks, distinguishes building uses across the financial district, the waterfront, and the retail corridors that had concentrated in downtown Boston by the end of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe street index is detailed enough to locate a specific address. The scale is large enough to identify individual buildings.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe north orientation toward the upper left, a rotation from the familiar modern orientation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe color blocks distinguishing different building uses. 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Charles Davenport, identified as \"the first projector of the embankment,\" commissioned both halves from J.H. Bufford's lithographic shop. The combination is part map, part sales pitch for a waterfront that would not be built for another two decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe lower panorama shows sailboats on the Charles and formal gardens along the bank. None of this existed yet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe church spires on the horizon line of the panoramic view, identifiable from the plan above.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe title calls this 'New Boston'. 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Walker drew this approach to Edgartown from the water, the way a passenger on the mainland steamer would first see it. Five wharves extend into the harbor, a lighthouse marks the entrance, and sailing vessels crowd the anchorage. Water Street runs parallel to the shore with the Greek Revival houses that whaling captains built in the 1830s and 1840s. The Methodist Church dominates the skyline. In the circular inset, Mattakesett Lodge signals the island's new economy: summer tourism was replacing whaling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe five wharves extending into the harbor. 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