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Coast Chart no. 9, Boston Bay and approaches

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Maps of North America

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Coast Chart no. 9, Boston Bay and approaches

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Title
Coast Chart no. 9, Boston Bay and approaches
Additional title: Boston Bay and approaches
Additional title: Coast charts no. 9 & 10, Massachusetts Bay with the coast from Cape Ann to Cape Cod
Additional title: Massachusetts Bay with the coast from Cape Ann to Cape Cod
Names
United States Coast Survey (Publisher)
Boutelle, C. O. (Charles Otis) (Creator)
Cram, Thomas Jefferson, 1807?-1883 (Creator)
Whiting, H. L. (Henry Laurens) (Creator)
Davis, C. H. (Charles Henry), 1845-1921 (Creator)
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 (Creator)
Peirce, Benjamin, 1809-1880 (Creator)
Enthoffer, J. (Joseph), 1818-1901 (Creator)
Totten, Joseph Gilbert, 1788-1864 (Creator)
Boschke, A. (Creator)
United States. Harbor Commission (Creator)
Collection

Maps of North America

Countries

United States (except New York)

States

Massachusetts

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1885 (Inferred)
Place: Washington, D.C.
Publisher: The Survey
Edition: Aids to navigation corrected to 1885
Library locations
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 16-769
Topics
Nautical charts -- Massachusetts -- Boston Bay (Mass.)
Nautical charts -- Massachusetts -- Massachusetts Bay (Mass.)
Nautical charts -- Massachusetts -- Atlantic Coast
Boston Bay (Mass.) -- Navigation
Massachusetts Bay (Mass.) -- Navigation
Atlantic Coast (Mass.)
Boston Bay Region (Mass.)
Boston Region (Mass.)
Genres
Maps
Nautical charts
Bathymetric maps
Notes
Statement of responsibility: Triangulation by C.O. Boutelle and Capt. T.J. Cram, U.S.A. assis. ; topography by H.L. Whiting [and others] ; hydrography by the parties under the command of C.H. Davis [and others]. Massachusetts Bay with the coast from Cape Ann to Cape Cod / from a trigonometrical survey under the direction of A.D. Bache and Benj. Peirce, superintendents of the Survey of the Coast of the United States.
Content: Relief shown by hachures and landforms drawings. Depths shown by soundings, isolines, and shading.
Content: Oriented with north toward upper right.
Content: "Edition statement from "Massachusetts Bay" title area.
Content: Includes light houses, variations of the magnetic needle, life saving stations, weather signal stations, bottom types, buoys, light vessels, tides, and 3 views: Cape Ann from the eastward, Rockport Light ... -- Boston entrance, Boston Light ... -- Minot's Ledge Light ...
Statement of responsibility: "Issued December 1877 C.P. Patterson Superintendent. Verified J.E. Hilgard Assistant in charge of Office."
Statement of responsibility: "The Hydrography of Boston Bay and Harbor is from a resurvey made under the direction of the U.S. Harbor Commission, consisting of Genl. J.G. Totten ... A.D. Bache ... and C.H. Davis by A. Boschke in 1862 '63 and '64."
Statement of responsibility: "Engd. by J. Enthoffer, J. Knight, J.C. Kondrup and H.S. Barnard. Views by G. McCoy."
Statement of responsibility: "Redd. Drng. by E. Hergesheimer, M.J. McClery, A. Lindenkohl and A. Balbach."
Content: "No. 109."
Statement of responsibility: "Electrotype Copy No. 3 by G. Mathiot, U.S.C.S."
Date: "Pulished in 1872."
Funding: Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018)
Physical Description
Extent: 1 map ; 75 x 97 cm, on sheet 84 x 102 cm
Type of Resource
Cartographic
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 957559432
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b21076433
Other local Identifier: US091.1.06
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 3882ba80-527c-0134-afec-00505686a51c
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1885: Issued
  • 2017: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Coast Chart no. 9, Boston Bay and approaches" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1885. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7ceb35f0-745d-0134-acfa-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Coast Chart no. 9, Boston Bay and approaches" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7ceb35f0-745d-0134-acfa-00505686a51c

APA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1885). Coast Chart no. 9, Boston Bay and approaches Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7ceb35f0-745d-0134-acfa-00505686a51c

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Coast Chart no. 9, Boston Bay and approaches