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The town of Boston in New England and Brittish ships of war landing th...

A restrike of a cropped plate originally engraved, printed, and sold by Paul Revere in 1770. See Brigham. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A plan of the town and harbour of Boston, and the country adjacent wit...

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A Plan oe [i.e. of] the British lines on Boston Neck in August 1775.

Scale ca. 1:3,300. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the bottom. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 915 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

The town of Boston in New England - Public domain map

Made in Boston: Bonner's map depicts Boston before centuries of landfill transformed its coastline. His distinctive design combines plan and perspective views to convey maximum information and achieve decorativ... More

The town of Boston in New England - Public domain map

Pictorial map showing buildings. Facsimile. "Engraved from a copy in the possession of Wm. Taylor Esq. and published by George G. Smith, engraver ... Boston, 1835." Redrawn from a copy of State II (1725). "I ha... More

Boston over Time - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

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To his excellency William Burnet, esqr., this plan of Boston in New En...

Relief shown pictorially. Shows selected buildings pictorially. Oriented with north toward the lower right. Watermark indecipherable. Wheat & Brun no. 227. Includes index to selected buildings and embellished t... More

[Bird's-eye view of Boston, Massachusetts, with two vignettes of Nativ...

Similar view of Boston incorporating lower left vignette of Native hunting was engraved by J. Turner and published in the American Magazine, 1745 August, title page.

A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America with t...

Scale ca. 1:5,700. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Includes text, ward index, and index to points of interest. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America, with ...

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[View of Boston] / J. Turner. - An open book with a picture of a town ...

Print shows bird's-eye view of Boston, Massachusetts, with view of Native hunting and a palm tree in the foreground. Illus. in: The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle. Boston : Printed and sold by Roge... More

Particular draughts and plans of some of the principal towns and harbo...

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Joseph Hawley correspondence and documents

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Georges Louis le Rouge - Plan de Boston

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Georges Louis le Rouge - Plan de Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leven...

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Plan de Boston : cette ville est composée de quatre mille maisons, et...

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Plan de la ville de Boston et ses environs

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A view of the City of Boston the capital of New England, in North Amer...

Print shows view of Boston, Massachusetts, from Cambridge looking across the Charles River; a shortened view with reduced skyline. Print attributed to Pierre Charles Canot.

Grundriss von der Stadt Boston und ihren Gegenden.

Scale ca. 1:45,000. Relief shown by hachures. Plate "No. 18." "T. XVI. B." From Allgemeine Historie der Reisen zu Wasser und Lande. 1758. Indexed. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 884 Available also through... More

Grundriss von der stadt Boston und ihren gegenden

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A plan of the town of Boston, in New-England, distinguishing that part...

Plan of the city of Boston, showing the part of the city near the Old Wharf that was destroyed by fire. Street names are labeled. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A map of the most inhabited part of New England : containing the provi...

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Plan de la ville et du port de Boston : capitale de la Nouvelle Anglet...

This is the earliest detailed plan of the city of Boston published in France. Beautifully engraved and colored in the best style of French manuscript and printed maps, it shows streets, houses, public buildings... More

Plan de la ville et du port de Boston; capitale de la Nouvelle Anglete...

Scale ca. 1:11,300. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Attributed to Bellin in Boston Engineering Department's List of maps of Boston published between 1600 and 1903. Includes text, ward index, and index t... More

Plan de la ville et du port de Boston : capitale de la Nouvelle Anglet...

Displayed here is the first state of Lattre's plan of Boston. The plan here was also separately issued. Describing Boston in the years before the American Revolutionary war, the plan includes information on sho... More

Plan de la ville de Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collecti...

Published for a French audience, this small, page-sized map depicts Boston and Charlestown. The legend identifies fortifications, churches, and other public buildings. Although unsigned, this plan is similar to... More

Plan de la ville de Boston - Public domain old map

Published for a French audience, this small, page-sized map depicts Boston and Charlestown. The legend identifies fortifications, churches, and other public buildings. Although unsigned, this plan is similar to... More

Plan de la ville de Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collecti...

Published for a French audience, this small, page-sized map depicts Boston and Charlestown. The legend identifies fortifications, churches, and other public buildings. Although unsigned, this plan is similar to... More

Plan de la ville et du port de Boston : capitale de la Nouvelle Anglet...

The talent and skill of Jean Lattré, a French publisher and engraver, are displayed in this attractive map of the immediate environs of Boston. The city and harbor command a sparse but forceful appearance in wh... More

A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America, with ...

After Bonner's death in 1726, his partner William Price assumed sole ownership of the Boston plan, which he reissued several times over the next 40 years. Facing competition from William Burgis' attractive plan... More

A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America with t...

Scale ca. 1:5,700. Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC copy annotated in ink. On bottom of the sheet, covered with a heavy outer neat line: Engraved and printed by Fra. Dewing, Boston NE. 1722. Sold ... More

[Boston Harbour, with the surroundings, &c. nautical chart

Scale ca. 1:24,000. Title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans. 1862. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by shading and hachures. Dept... More

A prospective view of the town of Boston, the capital of New-England -...

Print shows eight British warships (numbered and identified in bottom margin) in the harbor with Boston in the background. Illus. in: Edes & Gill's North-American almanack, and Massachusetts register for the y... More

A new and accurate plan of the town of Boston in New England : A new p...

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A chart of the coast of New England, from Beverly to Scituate harbour,...

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Exact plan of General Gage's lines on Boston Neck in America

Based on a map published in the Pennsylvania Magazine (August 1775), this is one of the few maps to show how the British set up their blockade on Boston Neck. The blockade was designed to protect English troops... More

Exact plan of General Gage's lines on Boston Neck in America.

Scale ca. 1:3,500. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. "Engrav'd for the Pennsylv[ani]a magazine." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North A... More

Map of the environs of Boston - Public domain old map

Appearing August 28, 1775, in the London publication, The Remembrancer, this was one of the earliest British depictions of Boston and vicinity following the battle at Bunker Hill. This generalized sketch map fo... More

A map of 100 miles round Boston - Public domain old map

Map of one hundred miles round Boston Courtesy of Boston Public Library

[Plan of the Neck and environs. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:12,000. Title in brackets on verso. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications at the Boston Neck and ranges to differe... More

A chart of the harbour of Boston nautical chart

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Major Genl. Howe's encampment on Bunkers Hill at Charles T., June 1775...

Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Shows position of troops and fortifications. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps... More

The seat of war in New England, by an American volunteer : with the ma...

Plan of Boston Harbour, from an actual survey | Plan of the town of Boston with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peninsula of Charlestown, the 17th of June, 1775 Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Boston from Willis Creek / William Pierre delin.

Print shows distant view of Boston from across river. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777-1781. This record ... More

The Seat of war in New England, by an American volunteer, with the mar...

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A view of Boston from Dorchester Neck / Wm. Pierre delin.

Print shows view across harbor of Boston from Dorchester, Massachusetts. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777... More

Plan of the heights of Charles Town, &c.

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Plan of Boston & vicinity. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:24,000. Title from verso, legible only with back lighting. Alternate title from Philip Lee Phillips' A list of maps of America: Boston and environs, showing entrenchments. Manuscript, pen-and-ink an... More

A front view of the lines taken from the advanced post near Browns hou...

A view of the harbour of Boston taken from Fort Hill | A view of Boston from Dorchester Neck Courtesy of Boston Public Library

[Plan of the "Neck" and fortifications] Delivd. to H.E. Gl. Gage, June...

Scale ca. 1:5,650. Title from P. L. Phillips' A list of maps of America, p. 148. Alternate title from Peter Force's catalog of manuscript maps: Works for defense of Boston. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolo... More

A plan of the town and chart of the harbour of Boston exhibiting a vie...

This chart documents the Port of Boston at the dawn of the American Revolution. Under the strain of the Boston Port Act imposed during the winter of 1774-75, New Englanders continued to agitate against their Br... More

Thirty-miles round Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collectio...

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Boston, S. West part. No. 25. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:5,600. Title in pencil; matches title in Peter Force's catalog of manuscript maps. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Oriented with north toward the upper right. Relief shown by hachures. Shows fortifications... More

Exact plan of General Gage's lines on Boston Neck in America

General Gage's fortifications on Boston Neck, in the year 1775 Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A new and correct plan of the town of Boston, and provincial camp.

Scale ca. 1:7,200. "Engrav'd for the Pennsylva. magazine" v. 1, 1775, p. 29. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes inset of provincial cam... More

Boston, its environs and harbour, with the rebels works raised against...

Scale ca. 1:24,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 911 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site ... More

A view of the country towards Dorchester, taken from the advanced work...

Long Island open on the north side of Nicks Mate Island | Boston from Willis Creek Courtesy of Boston Public Library

A draught of the towns of Boston and Charles Town and the circumjacent...

Scale ca. 1:26,500. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermark: J. Whatman. Relief shown by shading. Depths shown by soundings. "N.B. The rebels entrenchments are express'd as they appear from Beacon Hil... More

Map of the environs of Boston. - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:46,000. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. From The Remembrancer, 3d ed. 1775. Shows camp and lines of Generals Putnam, Ward, and Thomas and batteries and fortifications in the Boston area. A... More

A chart of the harbour of Boston nautical chart

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A Map of forty miles north, thirty miles west, and twentyfive miles so...

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A chart of the harbour of Boston nautical chart

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A chart of the harbour of Boston nautical chart

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A view of the lines thrown up, on Boston Neck, by the Ministerial Army...

Print with legend shows and identifies several locations in the vicinity of Boston, including John Hancock's house, Beacon Hill, the British encampment on McHill, and a blockhouse. Illus. on map: To the Hone. ... More

Plan of the battle, on Bunker's Hill : fought on the 17th of June 1775

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A sketch of the action between the British forces and the American pro...

This map and battle plan immortalized what came to be known as the Battle of Bunker Hill. The alphabetic key identifies British regiments and ships and narrates their actions. The plan also shows earthworks hel... More

Plan of the peninsula of Charles Town shewing the three posts that His...

Scale ca. 1:4,860. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures and shading. Dedication is in different ink from drafting of map. Includes index to major fortifications. LC Maps of North Ame... More

Plan of the town of Boston and circumjacent country shewing the presen...

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Situations plan der Englischen Armée vor und um Boston nebst der stel...

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Plan of Charles Town, with the intrenchments, and encampment of His Ma...

A new and correct plan of the town of Boston

As an example of late 18th-century British journalistic cartography, this is a reduced version of Page's original map of Boston. Using pictorial symbols, it shows Charlestown in ruins following the British burn... More

Powder horn with map of Boston and Charlestown, 1777

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Carte von dem Hafen und der Stadt Boston : mit den umliegenden Gegende...

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A view of Boston taken on the road to Dorchester

We Are One: This 1776 landscape scene, published in the maritime atlas The Atlantic Neptune, depicts Boston as it appeared to a person approaching the town from the south. Shepherds tend their flocks in the for... More

A plan of the town of Boston and its environs, with the lines, batteri...

Scale ca. 1:24,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps and Charts, 1750-1789, 930 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a r... More

Carte von dem Hafen und der Stadt Boston mit den umliegenden Gegenden ...

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Fort on Fort Hill in Boston. - Public domain old map

Scale 1:1,584; 132 ft. to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. On verso, in a different hand: W. H. Spooner, No. 4. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 925 Ava... More

Carte von dem Hafen und der Stadt Boston : mit den umliegenden Gegende...

This very rare German war plan of Boston and vicinity is an unusually fine topographic map. Its physical relief is symbolized by elaborately engraved hachures. A printed legend refers to the number and caliber ... More

Fort on the first hill in Dorc̃ester. Fort on the second hill in Dorc̃...

Scale 1:480; 40 ft. to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. One of a series of 5 drawings, in the same hand, of fortifications around Boston after rebuilding by American force... More

Fort on Noddles Island. - Public domain architectural plan drawing

Scale 1:3,168; 264 ft. to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. One of a series of 5 drawings, in same hand, of fortifications around Boston after rebuilding by American forces... More

Die gegend um Boston - Vintage map, Norman B. Leventhal Collection

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Carte du port et havre de Boston avec les côtes adjacentes, dans laqu...

We Are One: This beautiful, meticulously-drawn French map of Boston's harbor and environs uses the Liberty Tree and liberty pole icons to champion the Americans' cause. In the decorative title cartouche, a Nati... More

[Rough draught of Boston and harbour.

Scale ca. 1:18,500. Title from William Faden's Catalogue of a curious and valuable collection of original maps and plans. 1862. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Shows location of troops a... More

A plan of Boston, and its environs : shewing the true situation of His...

This rare and separately issued map with its vibrant original color is an historically valuable and attractive depiction of Revolutionary War Boston and vicinity. It was the best contemporaneous map of the mili... More

Fort on Dorc̃ester Point. - Public domain architectural plan drawing

Scale 1:480; 40 ft. to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. One of a series of 5 drawings, in the same hand, of fortifications around Boston after rebuilding by... More

Bowles's map of the seat of war in New England, comprehending the prov...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

Carte du port et havre de Boston avec les côtes adjacentes, dans laqu...

Highlighted on this fine topographic map of Boston and vicinity are the British and American troops. The American troops are colored red -- the first corps in Cambridge, the second corps opposite Charlestown ne... More

A plan of Boston, and its environs, shewing the true situation of His ...

Relief shown by hachures. Includes "References" to points of military and general interest. Oriented with north toward the upper right. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 932 Available also through the Librar... More

Carte du port et havre de Boston avec les côtes adjacentes, dans laque...

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Fort on Charlestown Point. - Public domain architectural plan drawing

Scale 1:3,168; 264 ft. to 1 in. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Relief shown by hachures. On verso, in a different hand: W. H. Spooner, No. 1. One of a series of 5 drawings, in the same h... More

Carte des environs de Boston, capitale de la Nlle. Angleterre en Ameri...

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special... More

A plan of Boston in New England with its environs : including Milton, ...

This most important battle plan of the New England theater of war shows, in detail, the American fortifications on Dorchester Heights forcing the British to leave Boston in 1776. This was the best printed plan ... More

Boston, its environs and harbour, with the rebel works raised against ...

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A plan of the town of Boston, with the intrenchments &c. of His Majest...

Scale ca. 1:9,700. Includes "References to the lines &c." and "References to the town." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 934 Vault ... More

A plan of the town of Boston, with the intrenchments &c. of His Majest...

This map, created by Lieutenant Thomas Hyde Page, undoubtedly follows the earlier survey of Captain John Montressor and became the most informative record available for the town of Boston at the time of the Ame... More

A plan of Boston in New England with its environs, including Milton, D...

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A plan of Boston in New England with its environs : including Milton, ...

This most important battle plan of the New England theater of war shows, in detail, the American fortifications on Dorchester Heights forcing the British to leave Boston in 1776. This was the best printed plan ... More

A plan of the town of Boston, with the intrenchments &c. of His Majest...

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A plan of the town of Boston with the intrenchments &ca. of His Majest...

Scale ca. 1:9,600. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. "N.B. Since the evacuation of Boston ... " LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 933 Available also through the Library of Con... More

Plan of the town of Boston with the attack on Bunkers-Hill in the peni...

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