Title: Burnt district of Boston, Massachusetts, 1873 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2006
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: 2006-04
- Coverage: 1873
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Plan of burnt district (by fire of Nov. 9th and 10th, 1872) : showing street improvements as adopted by Board of Street Commissioners and City Council, 1873, Thos. W. Davis, city surveyor ; presented by the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Co. It was published in 1876. Shows street improvements, property lots, lot ownership, and square footage of lots affected by the fire of 1872. Covers area bounded by Washington St. to Oliver St., State St. to Summer St. and Atlantic Ave., Boston, Massachusetts. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Massachusetts State Plane Coordinate System, Mainland Zone (in Feet) (Fipszone 2001). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, or other information associated with the principal map. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of Massachusetts from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates (1755-1922), scales, and purposes. The digitized selection includes maps of: the state, Massachusetts counties, town surveys, coastal features, real property, parks, cemeteries, railroads, roads, public works projects, etc.
Subjects
- Massachusetts
- Boston
- Maps
- Landowners
- Real property
- Streets
- Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872
- Fires
- City planning
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- planningCadastre
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-71.06266, -71.049279, 42.360107, 42.349867)
- Geometry: BBOX (-71.06266, -71.049279, 42.360107, 42.349867)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Davis, Thomas Wood. Burnt district of Boston, Massachusetts, 1873 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-matwn-3764-b6g45-1873-d31-c2
Format
GeoTIFF