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They provide architectural detail that the cartography alone cannot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe Back Bay shoreline; the tidal flats are still intact, just months before the fill project transforms them into a street grid.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe hachure marks across the surrounding hills. 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John Groves Hales surveyed Boston and its surrounding towns at a moment when the city was still compact on the Shawmut Peninsula, years before any landfill projects began. The hachure shading gives the hills real dimension. Dorchester Heights, Breed's Hill, and the drumlins of the harbor islands all cast shadows across the page.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe individual houses. Hales labeled the owners' names beside them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe color boundaries mark town lines, not wards. The border between Roxbury and Dorchester is clearly delineated.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe harbor islands; hachured hills are drawn on each one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"8×10","offer_id":47271588757682,"sku":"FOLIO-cj82m025j-POSTER-8x10","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271588855986,"sku":"FOLIO-cj82m025j-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12×16","offer_id":47211027464370,"sku":"FOLIO-cj82m025j-POSTER-12x16","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16×20","offer_id":47271588954290,"sku":"FOLIO-cj82m025j-POSTER-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18×24","offer_id":47211027562674,"sku":"FOLIO-cj82m025j-POSTER-18x24","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/cj82m025j-8x10.jpg?v=1775762067"},{"product_id":"boston-from-the-oldest-authorities-1893","title":"Boston from the Oldest Authorities, 1893","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eCity Surveyor Thomas W. Davis and cartographer Pierre Humbert Jr. built this map at a scale of 1:6,000, large enough to print at 121 by 129 centimeters. It shows wards, streets, railroads, and the Harbor Commissioners' line, with radial distances measured from City Hall. The printed base is Davis's 1888 plan, but this copy is covered in manuscript annotations, corrections, and paste-ons. A working document that records the city changing in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe manuscript corrections pasted over the printed map. This was a living document, not a finished product.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eRadial distance lines fan out from City Hall, with half-mile and one-mile markers measuring the city's reach.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe Harbor Commissioners' line marks the legal boundary of the waterfront, running along the shore.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"10×10","offer_id":47271591739570,"sku":"FOLIO-1257b883s-POSTER-10x10","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"14×14","offer_id":47271591936178,"sku":"FOLIO-1257b883s-POSTER-14x14","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16×16","offer_id":47271592034482,"sku":"FOLIO-1257b883s-POSTER-16x16","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18×18","offer_id":47271592132786,"sku":"FOLIO-1257b883s-POSTER-18x18","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/1257b883s-10x10.jpg?v=1775762123"},{"product_id":"hales-boston-region-1829","title":"Hales' Boston Region, 1829","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eJohn Groves Hales updated his 1819 survey with corrections in 1829, producing this regional view oriented with north toward the upper right. The color-coded townships, greens, tans, and blues, show the municipalities that would eventually be absorbed into Greater Boston. Hachure marks render the hills in relief across a wide geographic sweep from the Blue Hills to the harbor islands, capturing the full terrain of a region about to be reshaped by the railroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eNorth is toward the upper right. Orient yourself by finding the harbor and working inland.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eEach township is filled with a distinct color wash, the boundary between Brookline and Roxbury clearly drawn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe hachured hills show terrain that would be cut down for landfill within a generation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"8×10","offer_id":47271593083058,"sku":"FOLIO-wd376528r-POSTER-8x10","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271593181362,"sku":"FOLIO-wd376528r-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12×16","offer_id":47281352376498,"sku":"FOLIO-wd376528r-POSTER-12x16","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16×20","offer_id":47271593279666,"sku":"FOLIO-wd376528r-POSTER-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/wd376528r-8x10.jpg?v=1775762155"},{"product_id":"concord-1852","title":"Concord, 1852","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eHenry Francis Walling surveyed Concord by authority of the town, mapping every landowner's parcel with their name inscribed on it. The Old North Bridge appears as an engraved vignette in the upper left, labeled 'Birthplace of American Liberty.' Ralph Waldo Emerson's and Nathaniel Hawthorne's properties are marked among the farm parcels. This is a map where literary history and land records overlap. Hand-colored in pinks, greens, and yellows, each color delineates a different section of the town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe Old North Bridge vignette in the upper left corner. Walling chose to illustrate the site where the Revolution's first battle was fought.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003e'R.W. Emerson' inscribed on a parcel near the town center; the Transcendentalists were Concord landowners, and this map proves it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe farm parcels are individually named, their property lines revealing how Concord's land was divided among its families in 1852.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"8×10","offer_id":47271602716850,"sku":"FOLIO-1257bc79t-POSTER-8x10","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271602815154,"sku":"FOLIO-1257bc79t-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"12×16","offer_id":47211041259698,"sku":"FOLIO-1257bc79t-POSTER-12x16","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16×20","offer_id":47271602913458,"sku":"FOLIO-1257bc79t-POSTER-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"18×24","offer_id":47211041358002,"sku":"FOLIO-1257bc79t-POSTER-18x24","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/1257bc79t-8x10.jpg?v=1775762404"}],"url":"https:\/\/foliomaps.co\/collections\/survey-maps.oembed","provider":"Folio Maps","version":"1.0","type":"link"}