31. Beers Map, 1875

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Beers Company of New York compiled and published a series of county atlases that today provide detailed information on the evolution of the built landscape of many American towns. This close-up of Concord's Monument Square area comes from a larger map in the 1875 Beers Middlesex County atlas (County Atlas of Middlesex Massachusetts. From actual Surveys by and under the Direction of F.W. Beers. Published by J.B. Beers & Co.). The maps in this atlas were engraved by L.E. Neuman and printed by Charles Hart.