Burnt district of Boston, Massachusetts, 1873 (Raster Image)

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.

South College

South Wing, also called South College, built in 1849; demolished in 1950. Male person in image. On verso: Evidently the old South Wing of "South College" taken prior to 1871. The view, in the opinion of William C. Hood, who studied the shadows, from the northwest. Wm. Shaw, 11/30/37

The two sides of the school question : as set forth at the annual meeting of the National Educational Association, held at Nashville, Tennessee, July, 1889 /

Mode of access: Internet.

Argument of Charles F. Choate, esq., in behalf of the Northern (N.H.) railroad, against the consolidation of the Boston & Lowell and Fitchburg railroads, before the railway committee of the Massachusetts legislature, February 26, 1873.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of the introduction of pure water into the city of Boston : with a description of its Cochituate water works ... /

For supplement see Fitzgerald, Desmond. History of the Boston water works from 1868 to 1876.

The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics.

Description based on: v. 3, no. 3 (Oct./Nov. 1898)

Boston College's first Boston Brahmin friends /

Title from cover.

Attitudinal and behavioral changes of alcohol impaired drivers and analytical study of the alcohol education program of the Boston Alcohol Safety Action Project. Analytical studies 5 and 6.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Journal of Biblical literature.

Place of publication varies: Atlanta, GA, <1999->

The Architectural review.

Title from caption.

Silver jubilee cook book of tested recipes /

Blank pages interspersed; advertising matter included in paging.

Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History.

Mode of access: Internet.

Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.

Mode of access: Internet.

Papers and addresses.

The stone mason of Cromarty -- Class-day poem -- Alchemy and the alchemists -- Twelfth-night observances -- Mysteries and masques -- The settlement of New Amsterdam -- Historical sketch of Christ church -- Ticonderoga and Crown Point -- New York in 1801 -- Mysterious disappearances and presumptions of death in insurance cases -- The law of mortmain -- The law of life insurance -- Speech at Boston, Mass. -- Speech at Savannah, Ga. -- Address to Boston life underwriters -- Speech at Wilmington, Del. -- Life insurance in its relation to legal medicine -- Speech at St. Nicholas club dinner -- Speech at dinner of alumni of Trinity College.

The diary of William Bentley, D.D., pastor of the East Church, Salem, Massachusetts.

"Bibliography, compiled b Alice G. Waters": v. 1, p. xxxvii-x1.