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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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Paul Revere engraved this view of British troops marching up Long Wharf after Parliament sent regiments to suppress riots following the Townshend Acts of 1767. This 1870 chromolithograph reproduces Revere's original 1770 print. The same year as the Boston Massacre, which unfolded just blocks from this landing site.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe warships in the harbor. Revere drew eight vessels in formation, their flags clearly visible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe column of red-coated troops marching up Long Wharf toward the town center.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe church steeples along the skyline. 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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. 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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":"boston-wall-map-1852","title":"Boston Wall Map, 1852","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eHenry McIntyre's wall map spans sixteen joined sheets — nearly two meters of Boston at a scale where individual building footprints are visible in the street grid. Fifty-five vignettes line both margins: churches, banks, hotels, rail depots, each one drawn in architectural detail and named. Every wharf along the waterfront is labeled. 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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William Burgis re-engraved and updated John Bonner's 1722 plan, reorienting the peninsula diagonally to make room for an elaborate allegorical cartouche. He updated the list of churches to include Christ Church, built in 1723. Today known as Old North Church. This 1869 facsimile preserves a document that was reissued throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries because of its value in recording early Boston.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eNorth is toward the lower right. Burgis rotated the peninsula to accommodate his decorative cartouche.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eChrist Church in the index of places. 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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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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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Dutton published this harbor and bay chart from the Boston Map Store, marking every buoy, beacon, and submerged rock from Danvers south to Cohasset. Depth soundings crowd the shipping channels, and hachures shade the coastal hills. The chart covers the full harbor system at a scale useful for coastal navigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe radial distance rings centered on the State House. The chart measures everything from that single point.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe buoys and beacon symbols scattered across the harbor channels, each one marking a navigational hazard.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe coastline from Nahant around to Cohasset. 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Davis drew this map to record which towns Boston had absorbed and which it still hoped to annex. Each zone is hand-colored in a different tint, pinks, yellows, greens, blues, showing the patchwork of municipal boundaries that became Greater Boston. By 1873, Roxbury (annexed 1868) and Dorchester (annexed 1870) had already been absorbed. The radiating road network gives the map its visual structure, every route converging on the old peninsula at the center.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eEach color corresponds to a different annexation zone. The palette tells the story of Boston swallowing its neighbors.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe original city boundary, set against the expanded 1873 limits, reveals how far Boston pushed outward.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe road network radiating outward from the peninsula. 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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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Built-up areas are rendered in terracotta against pale green open spaces and sky-blue waterways. The map covers Greater Boston at a scale that lets a traveler orient themselves by neighborhood. From Cambridge across the Charles to the harbor, from Charlestown south to Dorchester.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe terracotta shading that fills every built-up block. Open land is left in pale green, making the city's footprint immediately legible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe Charles River rendered in sky blue, dividing Boston from Cambridge with a clean graphic line.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe Baedeker typography. 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Davis mapped the burned zone and the city's response: seventeen streets widened, four streets extended, and a new open space, Post Office Square, carved from the rubble. The map was distributed by the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company, whose imprint appears on the sheet. Poorly planned, overcrowded lanes had let the fire spread, and the rebuilt district was deliberately redesigned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe boundary of the burned district. The shaded zone shows exactly how far the fire reached before it was stopped.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003ePost Office Square, created from cleared land where dense buildings once stood.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe street-widening plans drawn over the old lot lines. 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Boston printer John Foster cut the woodblock in 1677 to illustrate William Hubbard's account of King Philip's War, the brutal conflict that nearly destroyed the New England colonies. Numbered sites mark where battles and massacres took place across the region. The crude woodcut technique, ships in the sea, hills rendered as lumpy mounds, a sea creature lurking off the coast, gives the map a raw, folk-art energy that no engraved copper plate could match.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe numbered battle sites scattered across the interior. Each one marks a specific engagement from King Philip's War.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe ships in the ocean: they're rendered as simple woodcut silhouettes, closer to medieval illustration than cartography.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe coastline south of Cape Cod bends sharply west. 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