Research Catalog

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Description

1. 1 map; 25 x 28 cm, on sheet 37 x 30 cm

Alternative title

1. Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US098.4.06

Subject

1. Boston (Mass.) -- Maps
2. Boston (Mass.) -- Administrative and political divisions -- Maps
3. Boston Region (Mass.) -- Maps

Genre/Form

1. Maps.

Call number

1. Map Div. 16-5280

Language

1. English

Note

1. Shows wards, streets, railroads, radial distance from City Hall, and notable physical features.
2. Includes "reference" to places of interest; inset: Plan of East Boston on a reduced scale; and an ancillary "Map of Boston and vicinity, 1863."
3. "Engraved expressly for the Boston Pocket Directory, 1863."
4. From: the Boston pocket business directory, 1863.
5. In lower margin: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863 by Dean Dudley, in the Clerks Office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Indexed in (note)

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division

Local note

1. NYPL Map Div. copy imperfect: several pieces of map lacking along the left.

Author

1. Dudley, Dean, 1823-1906, creator, publisher.

Title

1. New map of Boston : comprising the whole city with the new boundaries of the wards.

Imprint

1. [Boston, Mass.?] : [Dean Dudley], 1863.

Cartographic data

1. Scale approximately 1:19,200 (W 71°05ʹ35ʺ--W 71°00ʹ06ʺ/N 42°22ʹ10ʺ--N 42°19ʹ35ʺ).

Type of content

1. cartographic image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Indexed in:

1. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Map Division, v. 2, page 10, column 2, no. 1

Source

1. US098.4.06

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Place of publication

1. United States Massachusetts Boston.

Related to

1. Boston business directory. (OCoLC)404438575

Research call number

1. Map Div. 16-5280