A scarce and elaborate plat map for a seaside resort development at Pigeon Cove in Rockport, Mass. Located on the eastern extremity of Cape Ann, Pigeon Cove began attracting vacationers from the Boston area during the 1840s. Once the train reached the area in 1862, summer boarding homes soon.....
A scarce bird’s eye view of the north shore town of Beverly, Massachusetts, a seaside resort, residential, and manufacturing community. This view shows the town’s residences, manufacturing sites, railroads (the Boston & Maine R.R. and its Gloucester branch), churches, municipal buildings, and the city’s bustling harbor where numerous vessels are.....
A rare trade card for a Martha’s Vineyard chandler, featuring a small chart of Holmes’ Hole Harbor (today’s Vineyard Haven). The chart extends from East Chop to West Chop, shows their respective lighthouses, and locates Eastville, Norris’ Wharf Ship Stores, the road to the campground, Lagoon Pond, the Marine Railway.....
A real estate map promoting property at Lands End in Rockport, Massachusetts, a popular seaside summer community for Bostoners. Beginning as a village on Cape Ann, known for its rocky coast, fishing industries, quarries, coves, and granite production, Lands End was promoted as a summer community beginning in the.....
One of the largest and most spectacular bird’s eye views of Boston ever published, with the built environment of the city rendered in meticulous detail. This magnificent view shows the city from an elevated imaginary vantage point in the east, looking toward the Charles River and Cambridge in the.....
A very scarce map of the historic town of Danvers in Essex County, Mass., situated just north of Salem. This informative and handsome map shows the town’s streets, buildings, and landowners, as well as rail lines and topography. Seven detailed vignettes of local scenes embellish the margins, including a view.....
A skillfully drawn manuscript map, which appears to have been compiled for an official purpose, but does not appear to have been published. This map focuses on the waterfront villages of Marshfield, Massachusetts, a town perhaps best known as the home of Daniel Webster, whose house in Green Harbor.....
An attractive map of Gloucester and Rockport by one of the most accomplished and prolific U.S. mapmakers of the mid-nineteenth century. The map is divided into four sections, with maps of Rockport Village and Gloucester Harbor Village on the left, a general map of Rockport and Gloucester at the upper.....