September 6, 2007 –

The Harvard Map Collection’s atlases of historic
Cambridge have much to reveal about the city and the University’s past.
Looking at these over sized documents, for instance, one learns that 135
years ago, Harvard students boarded their horses in the University
stables where current day John Harvard’s Brew House operates and that
as of 1903 the John Harvard statue sat, not outside University Hall,
but by Memorial Hall. Now the Map Collection has made it easier for
those researching local history to use its Boston and Cambridge atlases
by digitizing these volumes and making them available online to the
public.

To view the whole announcement and the collection, visit the link below.

http://hcl.harvard.edu/news/2007/cambridge_boston_atlases.html

Congratulations Harvard Map Collection!

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