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Title: Manuscript map of Boston harbor showing fortifications
Contributor: Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
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Description: A map of Boston Harbor hand drawn on the verso of a printed map of Port Antonio in Jamaica. The map depicts the positions of fortifications and lines built during the Siege of Boston, 1775-1776. Boston is minimally sketched. MS note: 804 (on backing). Relief: no. Projection: Plane. Watermark: EAR. Verso Text: The map has been torn and repaired with a piece laid over the center of the hand drawn map. Title supplied by cataloger.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map : manuscript ; sheet 28 x 41 cm.
Identifier: 093:804b S
440281
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/15942
Language: English
Subject: Boston (Mass.)--Maps
Boston (Mass.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Maps
Boston Harbor (Mass.)--Maps
Time Period: ca. 1741
Place: North America
United States
Massachusetts
Boston
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, June 7, 1927.

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