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Each one tells you what mattered to the city's identity in 1838.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe wharves along the waterfront. They're individually labeled, extending like fingers into the harbor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe railroad stations marked on the map: by 1838 the rail lines were just beginning to reshape how people and goods moved through the city.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"8×10","offer_id":47271579877554,"sku":"FOLIO-3f4631972-POSTER-8x10","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271579975858,"sku":"FOLIO-3f4631972-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12×16","offer_id":47211019272370,"sku":"FOLIO-3f4631972-POSTER-12x16","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/3f4631972-8x10.jpg?v=1775761792"},{"product_id":"boston-with-building-views-1835","title":"Boston with Building Views, 1835","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eTwenty finely rendered views of public and commercial buildings frame the city plan, turning the map into a civic portrait. Boston's population statistics are printed directly on the sheet. The Back Bay is still tidal marsh, and the street grid ends abruptly at the water's edge where fill projects will soon begin. G.W. Boynton engraved the map for the Boston Bewick Company, a firm known for its wood-engraving work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe twenty building vignettes around the border. They include churches, markets, and the commercial buildings that defined 1830s Boston.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe population statistics printed on the map stand in contrast to the compact footprint of the peninsula.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe western edge of the city where hachure marks show the hills. 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Nathaniel Dearborn's map divides Boston into numbered wards and extends coverage to Charlestown, Cambridge, and Roxbury, showing a city of 93,000 people printed right on the sheet. North is oriented toward the lower right, and relief is rendered in hachures. The index to points of interest catalogs a city still compact enough to walk end to end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe population figure, \"93,000\", printed directly on the map, marking Boston before the great immigration waves of the 1840s.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe orientation: north points toward the lower right, rotating the familiar Boston shape into an unfamiliar angle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eRoxbury and Cambridge at the map's edges. Still separate towns, not yet annexed into the city.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"10×10","offer_id":47271583023282,"sku":"FOLIO-9s161b045-POSTER-10x10","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"14×14","offer_id":47271583219890,"sku":"FOLIO-9s161b045-POSTER-14x14","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16×16","offer_id":47271583318194,"sku":"FOLIO-9s161b045-POSTER-16x16","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18×18","offer_id":47271583416498,"sku":"FOLIO-9s161b045-POSTER-18x18","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/9s161b045-10x10.jpg?v=1775761881"},{"product_id":"roxbury-1849","title":"Roxbury, 1849","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eRoxbury is still its own city. Surveyed in 1843 by order of the town authorities, Charles Whitney's map records the community sixteen years before it was annexed by Boston in 1868. Sixteen views of churches line the border, forming a visual census of the congregations that anchored neighborhood life. The map is oriented with north toward the upper right, and hachure marks trace the drumlin hills that gave Roxbury its topographic character.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe sixteen church vignettes along the border. Each one represents a congregation that defined a Roxbury neighborhood.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe index that catalogs the streets and landmarks of a city that no longer exists as an independent municipality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe hachure marks showing the hills. Roxbury's terrain was far more varied than its flat modern streetscape suggests.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"8×10","offer_id":47271583514802,"sku":"FOLIO-9s161f230-POSTER-8x10","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271583613106,"sku":"FOLIO-9s161f230-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12×16","offer_id":47211022713010,"sku":"FOLIO-9s161f230-POSTER-12x16","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16×20","offer_id":47271583711410,"sku":"FOLIO-9s161f230-POSTER-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18×24","offer_id":47211022811314,"sku":"FOLIO-9s161f230-POSTER-18x24","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/9s161f230-8x10.jpg?v=1775761895"},{"product_id":"boston-from-bradfords-atlas-1838","title":"Boston from Bradford's Atlas, 1838","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eBoston is still confined to the Shawmut Peninsula here, but the transformation has begun. The fortifications noted in the subject headings reference the remnants of Revolutionary-era defenses still visible on the landscape. This map appeared in T.G. Bradford's Illustrated Atlas. One of the first American-published atlases to compete with European cartographic houses. George W. 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The saturated ward colors, pinks, greens, reds, divide Boston into political districts, while inset panels show South Boston (drawn by S.P. Fuller) and East Boston (surveyed by R.H. Eddy). Street indexes and points-of-interest keys line the margins. This is the city two years before the first trains reached it from the west.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe two inset panels. 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Boynton drew this map for the publisher N. Dearborn, noting Boston's population at 93,000. A city still confined to its original peninsula but expanding fast. North is oriented toward the lower right, and the wards are numbered and tinted in pink and salmon. Charlestown, Cambridge, and Roxbury appear at the edges, still separate towns that Boston would eventually annex. Hatched lines fill the harbor waters, and an index of points of interest catalogs the landmarks a visitor would need.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe population note, '93,000', printed directly on the map, a snapshot of Boston before the Irish immigration wave doubled the city.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe hatching in the harbor and river areas creates a visual texture that distinguishes water from land without using color.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe ward numbers and their boundaries reveal how Boston's political geography was carved into numbered districts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"10×10","offer_id":47271600783538,"sku":"FOLIO-9s1619901-POSTER-10x10","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"14×14","offer_id":47271600980146,"sku":"FOLIO-9s1619901-POSTER-14x14","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16×16","offer_id":47271601078450,"sku":"FOLIO-9s1619901-POSTER-16x16","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18×18","offer_id":47271601176754,"sku":"FOLIO-9s1619901-POSTER-18x18","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/9s1619901-10x10.jpg?v=1775762359"}],"url":"https:\/\/foliomaps.co\/collections\/railroad-era-1825-1849.oembed","provider":"Folio Maps","version":"1.0","type":"link"}