HINGHAM STEAMSHIP COMPANY 1881 Poster. Designated the oldest ferry company in the country, the Boston and Hingham Steamboat Co. was founded in 1831. After 50 years the firm restructured and was renamed Nantasket Beach Steamboat Lines. The service provided excursion passenger transit between Rowes Wharf, Boston and Nantasket Beach, the “Coney Island of Boston”, from the 1890s through the 1930s.
Original Dimensions of the Map are: 15" x 30".
Framed Dimensions are: 18" by 33".
Framed maps include drymounting, UV filtering glass, and your choice of five mouldings, wired and ready to hang upon delivery.
This map has been scanned From The ORIGINAL at 600 dpi using state of the art equipment {a Contex Large Format Scanner}. The replica map is printed on heavy matte fine art paper using archival pigment inks. This is one of over 5000 Original maps, charts and posters in our collection.
Many reproduction maps that are available on Etsy are taken directly from public domain sources {NY Public Library, Library of Congress, etc}. Although great for research purposes, these image files frequently suffer from poor color accuracy, lens blur and distortion. The maps in our collection have been scanned from the ORIGINAL, flat, at high resolution and with precisely calibrated color. This allows us to prints replicas that are virtually indistinguishable from the original maps.
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All sizes are approximate, we round up or down to the nearest inch.
Retailers who would like to carry our Maps, please contact us through the "ask a question" button in this listing, for information and discounts.
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