File:1866 Mitchell Map of Boston, Massachusetts - Geographicus - Boston-mitchel-1866.jpg

English: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Junior’s 1866 map of Boston, Massachusetts. Depicts Boston along with parts of East Cambridge, Charlestown, East Boston, and South Boston. Offers wonderful detail at the street level including references to parks, individual streets, trains, piers, ferries, and important buildings. Colored coded with pastels according to city wards. An inset in the lower right quadrant depicts Boston Harbor and the greater Boston area. Surrounded by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases between 1860 and 1865. This variant differs from earlier examples (1860-2) of Mitchell’s Boston only in coloration. One of the more attractive atlas maps of Boston to appear in the mid 19th century. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell Jr. for inclusion as plate 20 in the 1866 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Like many American map publishers of this period, Mitchell did not regularly update his copyright, consequently this map is dated and copyrighted to 1860: “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.