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Plan of Lynn Harbor and Beach.

Description: Map shows early nineteenth century railroad, road names, marshlands, buildings, businesses, and names of some residents in Nahant and Lynn, Massachusetts. Includes notes and 7 profile diagrams: Nos. 1-7. Relief shown by diagrams. Depths shown by soundings. Scale [1:21,120].
Date: 1837
Creator: Lewis, Alonzo, 1794-1861
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Article on balloons (aerial navigation)

Description: According to the headers and footers, this document is from the "American Magazine," volume I, number 6 which was published in February of an unknown year (a handwritten note on the cover says 1835). The first page (30) is the beginning of an article about how different people might be spending the winter months. The second page (280) includes the end of an article about a riot and burning of a Convent in or near Boston (which may refer to the burning of the Charlestown Convent in August, 18… more
Date: February 1835
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

Mitchell's traveller's guide through the United States : a map of the roads, distances, steam boat, & canal routes, &c. [Sheet 2].

Description: This sheet is map "explanation" and includes an index, distance table, and statistical tables. Map shows common roads, turnpikes, canals, and railroads; state and territorial boundaries, measured distances between points, and areas of Native American habitation. Insets: "Vicinity of the Falls of Niagara," "Vicinity of Boston," "Vicinity of New York," "Vicinity of Charleston," "Vicinity of Baltimore and Washington," "Vicinity of Philadelphia," "Vicinity of New Orleans," "Vicinity of Cincinnati,"… more
Date: 1835
Creator: Mitchell, S. Augustus (Samuel Augustus), 1792-1868
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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