Yes, New England has had COLD winters before ... 🧊❄️🥶
Map: U.S. Geological Survey, "Mean monthly average temperature" (1986): buff.ly/rEUu47f
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What's beer got to do with urban development?
In this new article from Joshua Merced, you'll learn how Boston's brewing landscapes connect past to present, urban to rural, and people to place. Read the full article: buff.ly/xVJ4hVq
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You don't see too many maps like this one ... well, ever! 💙
This map of Scituate, Rhode Island is unique not only for its striking blue(print) color, but also for the fun anecdotes left by the mapmaker, Captain George E. Matteson.
Map: buff.ly/bKVkk4N
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Sometimes, a globe is the only kind of travel you need 🌎
Gilman Joslin, “Joslin’s hand-book to the terrestrial and celestial globes: how to use a globe,” (1885): bit.ly/3Igkhw0
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This series of wintery panoramic views draws us into the personal connections between geographers and the places they love.
Map: Panorama from the Pinnacle, Lyme, N.H. (1966). See our Digital Collections portal: buff.ly/1uN3XmY
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Time Capsule: Dec. 19, 1945. Image of a traincar near a set of snow-covered rails.
Newspaper clippings. "SNOW. Wednesday -- Possibly snow. Thursday -- Cold, high winds." "Boston Digs Out of 12-Inch Snowfall". Old images of two women in the snow, a group of carollers.
Picture of elevated train station with text: "On Dec. 19, 1945, the snowstorm arrived! At elevated train stations like this one, heavy snow caused closures and delays.
Welcome December 19 in our time capsule series, where we jump 80 years into the past to watch a big snowstorm blow over Boston, day-by-day.
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Time Capsule: Dec. 18, 1945. Image of a snowy park landscape, with a church spire in the distance.
Newspaper clippings about cold weather "Tuesday -- Cold. Wednesday -- Some snow." "Frigid Christmas Looms as Cold Spell Lengthens." One day before the snowstorm, only freezing temperatures and "some snow" were predicted.
Welcome back to our time capsule series, where we jump 80 years into the past to watch a big snowstorm blow over Boston, day-by-day.
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Time Capsule: Dec. 17, 1945. Image of train coming into South Station
"Sub Zero Blast Brings N.E. Toll of Accidents, Exposures." "BRRR-rrrr! (We're Not the Only Ones!)." Headlines focused on accidents, transportation delays, and storm intensity ... "Snow, Heavy Winds Buffet Shipping, Delay Trains; Cold to Last 2 Days"
... but there were also positives to the chill. "Only scattered snow flurries are expected during the two-day cold spell. Skating, already made possible in suburban communities by the freezing weather of the past week, will be improved by the zero temperature." Image of woman in a warm coat. Snowy street scene with a clock tower, houses, and people walking.
Welcome to our time capsule series, where we jump 80 years into the past to follow a Boston snowstorm as it played out, day by day.
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We Bostonians are lucky to have a relatively clean river! But the Charles wasn’t always like that…
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Happy (belated) 125th to Boston Symphony Hall! 🎂
Maps: Bromley, Atlas of the City of Boston (1898); Bromley, Atlas of the City of Boston (1902), Indexed map of Boston (1900)
Source: WBUR
Images: Digital Commonwealth, Boston Symphony Orchestra
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Did you know there's a room in Boston City Hall where you can see the entire city ✨in miniature?✨
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Do you ever wonder what neighborhoods Boston used to have that no longer exist? What would the city be like if they weren’t demolished? 🤔
Map: Parcel 10 : Sears Crescent, Government Center
Images: Digital Commonwealth, Historic New England
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❗Join us this Friday, Nov 14 for our next map collection showing❗
In this installment of From the Vault, we’ll look at maps that demonstrate historic and contemporary shifts to place names.
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❗Join us November 13 for a conversation in the Brown Seminar Series on women property holders of Boston’s waterfront in the late 1700s with professor Katy Lasdow❗
Use the link in our bio to register for the event.
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📖 Wanna find a shop’s address in the 19th century? Better pull out ye olde tome of addresses!
Map: Map of Boston: engraved expressly for Clark's Boston blue book (1885)
Source: BPL Research Guides, Internet Archive
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🫖All this rainy weather’s making us thirsty for a hot cup of Earl Grey. Good thing Boston has a barrel-sized tea kettle in City Hall Plaza!
Map: Insurance Maps of Boston, vol. 1 (1882)
Sources: Boston.com
Images: Digital Commonwealth, Historic New England
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(Signal) changes are happening at the MBTA!
Maps: Boston elevated railway system (1899), Boston Elevated Railway lines operated 1925 (1925), MBTA map : 1977-1978 (1977)
Image: WBUR
Sources: WBUR, MBTA
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If you’re ever booking a flight to Boston, make sure you’re going to the right one! Wouldn’t wanna accidentally end up in Australia 🫠
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It can be nice to catch glimpses of the past in our everyday lives 🪞
Source: Boston Preservation Alliance
Map: Atlas of the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts, Vol. 2 (1873), Map of Boston [1886]
Images: Historic New England, Boston Preservation Alliance
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Remember that time Boston hosted the world’s largest tech convention? Yeah, we don't either 🥲
Map: New map of Boston giving all points of interest... (1883)
Images: Digital Commonwealth, Historic New England, The Huntington
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❗Join us this Friday, Sep 19, for a Map Collections Showing as we explore different ways to view the world through map projections❗
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❗Join us this Friday, Sep 5, for a Map Collections Showing as we ask the question: What truly is the best state around?❗
It’s not uncommon to be proud of the place you live… but these maps take it to another level!
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✨Calling all cartography enthusiasts: it’s new acquisitions time!✨
Scroll through the following slides to see some of the newest acquisitions to our collection of over 250,000 maps, atlases, globes, and other cartographic objects.
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Are you really a Bostonian if you don’t pronounce harbor like “haah-buh”?
We just wouldn’t be Boston without our harbor 💕
Map: New chart of Boston Harbor (1860)
Images: Digital Commonwealth
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✍🏽Want to become a map maker in 1895? Great, all you need is skills in cartography, some artistic talent, and… perfect penmanship?
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🥲🪢Boston and its ropewalks are a case study in "you don't know what you got til it's gone"
Maps: The town of Boston in New England [1723–1733], Flirtation walk schematic planting plan Charlestown Navy Yard (1990)
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👯“A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.” - Isadora James
Maps: Map of Japan (1905), Siege of Strasbourg, 1870 (1872), Melbourne (1895), The Cape Verd Islands... (1775)
Image: Digital Commonwealth
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🦎♎🗺️ What do lizards, libras, and our exhibit on the Revolutionary War have in common? Scales!
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🔍Did you know that Fenway Park is technically named after a patch of mucky marshland? Boston sure draws name inspiration from some interesting places🥴
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Check out the maps from each of the events in the roundup articles on our website (link in bio).
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