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Boston (Mass.) -- Maps

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

A series of plans showing the existing ways and owners of property 1630, 1635, 1640, 1645, 1909

 Item — Volume 55
Scope and Contents From the Series: Includes copies of Annual Reports for the years 1868, 1870-1871, 1873-1883, 1885, 1892-1898, 1900-1905, 1907-1910; indexes to Births in the City of Boston for the years 1923, 1928, 1931, 1934, 1945-1947, 1949-1951, 1953-1959, 1961-1967; index to marriage intentions and marriages recorded in 1894; "Bills of Mortality 1810-1849; "List of Freemen 1630-1678"; "A Series of Plans Showing the Existing Ways and Owners of Property 1630, 1635, 1640, 1645" published in 1909; and "Maps of the Street...
Dates: 1909

Assessing Department plans

 Series
Identifier: 2100.016
Scope and Contents

Large format plans arranged by ward number and block. Includes the block numbers, street names, plot dimensions, and building footprints. These plans were used for reference purposes only.

Dates: circa 1918-1985

Atlases

 Collection
Identifier: 9800.003
Scope and Contents Collection of atlases published by G. M. Hopkins & Co., G. W. Bromley & Co., and L.J. Richards.Holdings of Hopkins atlases include: Boston Proper, 1874; Roxbury, 1873; South Boston and Dorchester, 1874; Brighton, 1875; and Charlestown, 1875.Holdings of Bromley atlases includes: Boston Proper and Back Bay, 1898, 1908, 1912, 1917, 1922, 1928 and 1938; Brighton, 1890, 1897, 1909, 1916 and 1925; Charlestown, 1892 and 1901; Charlestown and East Boston, 1901, 1912...
Dates: 1873-1938

City Planning Board map

 Series
Identifier: 4030.003
Dates: 1959

Fenwick Smith Atlas collection

 Collection
Identifier: 9800.020
Scope and Contents

Atlases of Boston donated to the City Archives by Fenwick Smith.

Dates: 1873-1938

Surveyor plans

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2100.017
Scope and Contents

In November of 1876, the Board of Assessors requested an appropriation of $1500 for the purpose of causing the preparation of a set of reduced copies, on tracing cloth, of surveyors' plans of estates, to be used in street and office work in the Assessors' Department. Includes copies of surveyor plans, arranged by neighborhood, which were drawn circa 1856-1877.

Dates: 1877

Ward and precinct maps

 Collection
Identifier: 4700.011
Scope and Contents

Map books showing ward and precinct boundaries for the years 1878, 1886, 1889, 1890, 1895, 1916, 1921, 1925 and 1936 printed by the Election Department.

Dates: 1878-1936