Mimeographed copy of a Nantucket property map, dated June 1st, 1927.Found folded in "The Croquet Player" by H.G. Wells. Published by Viking, 1937.
For fun, I lined up the map with a current street map from Google:
9/18/2009 |
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my take on the original map vs the Google map is the original was for planning and maybe the planning was scaled back?
Visited Nantucket for the first time 2 Septembers ago and it was lovely although I found the forced conformity of the facades to be a bit stifling.
You do find interesting things.
That's so cool to be able to compare them!
wow it looks so delicate!
ooooo this is so cool how you can see a map of 1927 and 2009!!! I have never been to Nantucket but this really makes me want to hahaha...I always love the things you find!
A girl? Hmmm, that's not the way I learned it. We should talk...