Research Catalog

Title

Boston with its environs in 1775 & 1776.

Publication

[Boston] : [C.C. Little & J. Brown], [1851]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Frothingham, Richard, 1812-1880.

Description

1 map; 16 x 23 cm

Alternative Title

• Boston with its environs in 1775 and 1776
• Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018). US097.1.08

Subjects

• Maps
• History
• Siege of Boston (Massachusetts : 1775-1776)
• Boston (Mass.) > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Maps
• Boston Metropolitan Area (Mass.) > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Maps
• Boston (Mass.) > History > Siege, 1775-1776 > Maps
• Boston Metropolitan Area (Mass.) > History > Siege, 1775-1776 > Maps
• Massachusetts > Cambridge
• Massachusetts > Boston

Genre/Form

• History.
• Maps.

Note

• Shows positions of troops, forts, redoubts and batteries.
• Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by shading.
• Scale based on comparison with map of known scale. This map includes subdivided bar for "Scale of miles," but has no numbers designating numbers of miles represented.
• "Engraved for Frothinghams History."
• From: History of the siege of Boston, and of the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill / Richard Frothingham. 2nd edition, 1851.
• Includes "references" to points of interest.

Call Number

Map Div. 15-321

OCLC

899295785

Title

Boston with its environs in 1775 & 1776.

Publisher

[Boston] : [C.C. Little & J. Brown], [1851]

Cartographic Data

Scale approximately 1:73,000 (W 71°07ʹ18ʺ--W 70°55ʹ57ʺ/N 42°23ʹ47ʺ--N 42°18ʹ24ʺ).

Type of Content

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Place of Publication

United States Massachusetts Boston.

Added Author

Frothingham, Richard, 1812-1880. History of the siege of Boston, and of the battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 15-321