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“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.
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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 today's 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 the tourist on foot. Here, red highlighting illustrates tram routes (solid lines) and automobile ro...