• Jan 1, 0001

Atlascope

Discover real estate and fire insurance maps of Boston and surrounding towns with detail down to the level of buildings and owner names

• Jan 1, 0001

Georeferencing

Transform images of historic maps into layers that match onto modern web maps

• Dec 2, 2022

From The Vault Collections Showing — Textile Maps

• Nov 18, 2022

From The Vault: Collections Showing (2022/11/18)

• Nov 6, 2022
• Ian Spangler

How well do you know your Massachusetts towns?

Silly games can open new windows into map collections

• Nov 4, 2022

From The Vault: Collections Showing (2022/11/04)

• Oct 21, 2022

From The Vault: Collections Showing (2022/10/21)

• Oct 7, 2022

From The Vault: Collections Showing (2022/10/07)

• Sep 19, 2022
• Megan Nally

The (unrealized) Metropolitan Master Highway Plan of 1948

The Southwest Expressway and Inner Belt Highway projects were both proposed in the Master Highway Plan for the Boston Metropolitan Area in 1948. Designed to cut through densely-populated areas inside and outside of Boston, both projects were eventually halted and abandoned in the early 1970s.

• Sep 2, 2022
• Rachel Sharer

The Spirit of Radio

Explore some new and old radio maps in our collection, and learn a bit about the history of radio communications.