Leventhal Map Center News Today

“Getting Around Town: Four Centuries of Mapping Boston in Transit,” located in the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center in the Boston Public Library, is the first transit map exhibit at the center and displays more than 400 years of the Boston’s transit system’s history through an extensive collection of maps, primary documents and...

Concord Academy and Concord Museum develop a primary source curriculum on the American Revolution.

Keep your kids engaged, entertained and learning while school's out this spring with this suite of events across Boston.

If we link the history of slavery to the labor movement, we can better understand the true interconnectedness of all Americans in the process.

Description A rare pictorial chromolithograph perspective view and map of Florence / Firenze, Italy. The view is centered roughly on the Palazzo Vecchio, and looks south on Florence from a fictional highpoint above todays Pizzale Vittorio Veneto, labeled here Piazzale degli Zuavi. The map follows in a style popular at time wherein buildings and monuments are superimposed as profile vignettes over an otherwise simple perspective map - impractical for serious navigation, but a wonderful aid to t...

BuzzardsBay-eldridge-1877 $1,950.00 Title Eldridges Chart No. 10. Buzzards Bay, from the United States Coast and George Eldridges Surveys.   1877 (dated)         1 : 55000 Description This is a scarce separately issued 1877 George Eldridge nautical chart or maritime map of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. This elegantly produced chart on thick stock depicts from the west coast of Cape Cod and includes New Bedford, Falmouth, Sippican, Wareham, Woods Hole, and Mattapoisett, among other tow...