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WALLING, H.F
Map of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Based upon the Trigonometrical Survey of the State, the Details from Original Surveys under the Direction of Henry F, Walling, Supt. Of the State Map
Boston: Smith & Bumstead, 1858. Copper-engraved wall map with full period color, 59 x 61½ inches. Expertly repaired, backed with modern linen, trimmed in burgundy cloth, and on contemporary rollers. Very good condition
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A large, lovely, and brightly colored wall map of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, located just east of Boston and including Charlestown, Cambridge, Somerville, Lexington, and Concord
In 1850, Henry F. Walling began the most comprehensive survey of Massachusetts towns that had ever been undertaken. Ristow suggests that the surveys were prepared on contract for town officials. "After supplying these officials with a specified number of the maps, he was free to sell additional copies on his own." The care and success with which Walling pursued this project led the Massachusetts legislature to select him to construct a new State Map in 1855. Walling conducted a complete re-survey of the entire state, and separate maps on a large scale were constructed and published of all counties. The project was discontinued due to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1860. Ristow devotes an entire chapter to the work of Henry Walling in American Maps and Mapmakers (pps. 327-338.)
The map of Middlesex was one of the largest and finest of Walling's Massachusetts county maps. It was the most accurate and detailed map of the county that had yet been assembled. There are approximately seventy insets of county towns and villages, including: Cambridge, Lexington, Concord, Charlestown, Somerville, Lowell, Waltham and Natick. There is also a large geological map of Middlesex County. Seven vignettes of important county buildings are aligned along the top margin. In addition there is a Table of Distances, and business directories for Lowell, Cambridge, Somerville and Charleston
Phillips Maps, p.429.
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