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The center manages the geographic collections of the Boston Public Library as well as material collected by Norman B. Leventhal during his lifetime, known as the Mapping Boston Collection. Its holdings stretch chronologically from the 15th century to the present, and geographically cover the world, with a focus on Boston and New England .
The New England Aquarium is a nonprofit organization located in Boston, Massachusetts. The species exhibited include harbor and northern fur seals , California sea lions , African and southern rockhopper penguins , giant Pacific octopuses , weedy seadragons , and thousands of saltwater and freshwater fishes.
Aquarium station is an underground rapid transit station on the MBTA Blue Line in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is located under State Street at Atlantic Avenue on the eastern edge of Boston's Financial District near Boston Harbor. The station is named for the nearby New England Aquarium.
The Boston Aquarial and Zoological Gardens (October 1860 – June 1862) in Boston, Massachusetts, featured a public aquarium and zoo. It was located in the Financial District on Central Court (off Washington Street ). [ 1 ]
Advertisement for the South Boston Aquarium ca. 1915. The interior of the South Boston Aquarium looking from the main gallery towards the central seal pool in 1921. The aquarium was first proposed in the late nineteenth century by the Boston Society of Natural History as an attraction for the newly created Marine Park at City Point in South ...
The aquarium has since become a major feature on the remaining area of the wharf, having operated there since its opening in 1969. [ 5 ] Of the original warehouses built on Central Wharf, the westernmost eight (at 146-176 Milk Street ) [ 6 ] have survived into the 21st century, although their facades have undergone varying degrees of alteration ...
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Map of the city of Boston (1775), showing the position of Hancock's Wharf at the North-East, between Long Wharf and North Battery. Hancock's Wharf was a dock on the waterfront of Boston, Massachusetts in the 1700s, owned by John Hancock , and previously his uncle, Thomas Hancock .