There Once Was A Girl From Nantucket


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:


at 9/18/2009
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  1. California GirlSeptember 18, 2009 at 2:37 PM

    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.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 18, 2009 at 3:56 PM

    That's so cool to be able to compare them!

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  3. Victoria StitchSeptember 18, 2009 at 5:36 PM

    wow it looks so delicate!

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  4. UnknownSeptember 18, 2009 at 7:18 PM

    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!

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  5. filbertSeptember 19, 2009 at 10:21 PM

    A girl? Hmmm, that's not the way I learned it. We should talk...

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