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A World of Fun and Relaxation - Massachusetts The Historic Vacationland. A Travel Map to help you feel at home in the Bay State!

  • ARTIST: Ernest Chase

  • PUBLISHER: Published by the Massachusetts Department of Commerce.

  • MEDIUM: Offset,

    DATE: c.1961.

  • EDITION SIZE: Image 20 1/4 x 32 1/4" (51.5 x 82 cm).

  • DESCRIPTION: The map is surrounded by numerous illustrations that depict historical points of interest, churches, sports, bridges, boating, monuments, schools and historic facts such as "Bell Invented Telephone Here”, "Here Hawthorne wrote House of Seven Gables", “Berkshire Music Festival, Tanglewood, Stockbridge, Lenox” etc. Inset map shows the greater Boston area. Text on verso includes listing of covered bridges, mileage table, chart of recreation areas, photo illustrations and descriptions of points of interest.<br><br> Ernest Dudley Chase was one of the most prolific and renowned pictorial map artists of the 20th century, producing about 50 maps issued from the 1930s to the 1960s.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition and color.

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  • CATEGORIES: Maps

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