A Panoramic View From Bunker Hill Monument — 1848
A Panoramic View From Bunker Hill Monument — 1848
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Full title: A Panoramic View from Bunker Hill Monument. Published in Boston by Redding & Co. in 1848. 16 pages.
With engraving by James Smillie from a Drawing by R. P. Mallory.
A guidebook and pictorial fold-out that illustrates the 360-degree view of Boston and its surrounding towns as seen from the summit of the Bunker Hill Monument.
This original 1848 edition is 16 pages long, accompanied by a large 4-foot-long folding panorama designed to help tourists identify landmarks across the horizon.
The text serves as an explanatory index that corresponds to 160 numbered sites on the engraving. These include churches, bridges, railroads, mills, Boston Harbor islands, and U.S. Navy ships.
Alongside descriptions of 19th-century Boston architecture and commerce, the book recounts the events of the Battle of Bunker Hill and the history of the monument itself.
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