{"product_id":"back-bay-before-the-fill-1855","title":"Back Bay Before the Fill, 1855","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-context\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eThe Back Bay is still underwater, but the streets are already planned. This 1855 Colton atlas map shows a dotted grid extending west from the Public Garden into the tidal flats. Projected streets based on David Sears' acquisition of the mudflats in the 1840s. One proposal even included an oval lake in the center of the new neighborhood. The decorative vine border and pastel color washes mark this as a steel-engraved atlas plate from J.H. Colton \u0026amp; Co. in New York, the kind of map a prosperous household would have framed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-callouts\"\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe dotted street grid west of the Public Garden. Those are the planned Back Bay streets, laid out over water that hadn't been filled yet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe oval shape sketched into the Back Bay grid: an unrealized plan for a lake at the center of the new neighborhood.\u003c\/li\u003e\n        \u003cli\u003eThe vine border framing the map is characteristic of Colton's atlas plates from the 1850s. Decorative geography for the parlor wall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Folio","offers":[{"title":"8×10","offer_id":47271576076466,"sku":"FOLIO-3f463276h-POSTER-8x10","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"11×14","offer_id":47271576174770,"sku":"FOLIO-3f463276h-POSTER-11x14","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"16×20","offer_id":47271576273074,"sku":"FOLIO-3f463276h-POSTER-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/7292\/6898\/files\/3f463276h-8x10.jpg?v=1775761713","url":"https:\/\/foliomaps.co\/products\/back-bay-before-the-fill-1855","provider":"Folio Maps","version":"1.0","type":"link"}