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Item Information

Title:
Boston
Description:
This plan of the town of Boston is one of an unrecorded pair of German engravings, originally printed in a book, pertaining to Boston. Together they present a detailed picture of the setting of the Boston Massacre and the town of Boston in the final decades of the eighteenth century. The town plan includes houses, buildings, wharves and the Boston Common. Mounted with "Hafen von Boston.
Creator:
Theil, J.
Engraver:
Gerstmayr
Name on Item:
Gerstmayr sc.
Date:
1780
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Private Collection
Collection (local):
Mapping Boston Collection
Subjects:
Boston (Mass.)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 map ; 25 x 18 cm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License (CC BY-NC-SA).
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Publisher:
Memmingen? : [s.n.]
Scale:
Scale not given
Language:
English
Notes:
Relief shown pictorially.
"III Taf." in upper right corner.
Mounted with Hafen von Boston.
Identifier:
05_04_000067
Barcode:
39999052509500