Map of the city of Boston and its environs

Map of the city of Boston and its environs

Item Information

Title:
Map of the city of Boston and its environs
Description:
Although no battles were fought in Boston, many people in the greater Boston area were heavily involved in war-related activities. The accompanying map portrays Boston and its neighboring communities at the end of the war. With a population of approximately 180,000, Boston proper was the largest city in New England, and the fifth largest in the United States.
Creator:
Walling, Henry Francis, 1825-1888
Name on Item:
executed under the direction of H.F. Walling ; engd. by Worley & Bracher.
Date:
1866
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:
Boston (Mass.)--Maps
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 map : col. ; 157 x 158 cm., sheets 52 x 79 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cj82m0362
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
New York : Baker & Tilden
Scale:
Scale 1:31,680.
Language:
English
Notes:
Relief shown by hachures.
Cocentric rings show distance from Boston.
"Longitude from State House."
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 by Baker & Tilden, in the clerks office of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts."
Notes (exhibitions):
Exhibited: "Torn in Two: The 150th Anniversary of the Civil War" organized by the Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library, 2011.
Identifier:
06_01_000890
Call #:
G3764.B6 1866 .W35
Barcode:
39999058989102