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

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

Discover how Boylston Street has changed over time with this selection of documents shown at our October 27 "From the Vault"

Check out these highlights from last week's From The Vault: Hispanic Heritage Month

When a French captain sailed past Japan in the late eighteenth century, a guess about toponyms set off a century of cartographic confusions

Check out these highlights from last week’s edition of From The Vault: Commodities

Is it possible to draw out into the open the vast and very global relationships which have built the world around us?