English: A beautiful example of S. A. Mitchell Jr.’s 1864 map of Boston, Massachusetts. Depicts Boston along with parts of East Cambridge, Charlestown, East Boston, and South Boston. Offers wonderful detail at the street level including references to parks, individual streets, trains, piers, ferries, and important buildings. Colored coded with pastels according to city wards. An inset in the lower right quadrant depicts Boston Harbor and the greater Boston area. Surrounded by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases between 1860 and 1865. This variant differs from earlier examples (1860-2) of Mitchell’s Boston only in coloration. One of the more attractive atlas maps of Boston to appear in the mid 19th century. Prepared by S. A. Mitchell Jr. for inclusion as plate 20 in the 1864 issue of Mitchell’s New General Atlas . Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.