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Map [Plan of the Neck and environs.

About this Item

Title

  • [Plan of the Neck and environs.

Created / Published

  • 1775?]

Headings

  • -  Fortification--Massachusetts--Boston--Maps--Early works to 1800
  • -  Boston (Mass.)--Buildings, structures, etc.--Maps, Manuscript--Early works to 1800
  • -  United States--Massachusetts--Boston

Notes

  • -  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 different points from a battery on Foster's Hill on Dorchester Neck and from fortifications outside the Neck which do not agree.
  • -  Annotated in pencil: No. 60.
  • -  LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 916
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
  • -  Vault
  • -  AACR2

Medium

  • col. map on sheet 43 x 27 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3764.B6S3 1775 .P5

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • gm71000917

Online Format

  • image

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