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Mapping colonial Boston

Heaven for map nerds: Mass. Historical Society's online collection of colonial-Boston maps.

Via J.L. Bell, who points out some of the highlights.

And let's not forget the BPL's online Boston map collection.

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Do you think it's too late in life for me to start collecting local historical maps? I bet all the good ones of the greater Boston area from 1600 to now are already snapped up, huh?

What's up with the difference in rights management between MassHist and the BPL? At MassHist, they watermark everything, and have draconian "you must supply a citation in writing for every single copy you ever think you might want to make" page, while the BPL simply has a "Download" link for their maps.

I suppose MassHist is it's own private library, and might want to ensure it's prominence by ensuring it gets credit. But still: most of those maps are pretty obvious and rare, so it'd be pretty obvious in any case where they (or copies) came from.

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I think that they are probably trying to get sufficient credit for historical/informational reasons, rather than strictly trying to enforce copyright.

Copyright does not generally extend to scans of public domain works. Since those maps were all created prior to 1923, they would all be in the public domain in the U.S.

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