{"id":57818,"date":"2022-12-12T03:58:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T03:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/?p=57818"},"modified":"2022-12-12T06:58:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T06:58:49","slug":"a-map-of-early-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/12\/12\/a-map-of-early-providence\/","title":{"rendered":"A map of early Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A map of early Providence by Richard F. Barlett, from Arthur E. Wilson&#8217;s popular history of early Providence <em>Weybosset Bridge<\/em> (1947). The combination of cover view and map allow one to orient oneself in similar pictures that look down on the very early bridge in Providence. Such as the 1762 one Lovecraft was enamoured enough to ask for a copy of, when he <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/03\/25\/picture-postals-from-lovecraft-the-shepley-library\/\">visit the private Shepley Library and Museum<\/a> in Providence. Such views lack almost all modern landmarks and so are difficult to place. There are starred numbers on this particular map, and the key is found in small lettering on the ornate title plaque. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/map-early-providence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/map-early-providence.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"275\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/map-early-providence.jpg 2123w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/map-early-providence-528x275.jpg 528w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/map-early-providence-768x400.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/map-early-providence-1536x800.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/map-early-providence-2048x1067.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A map of early Providence by Richard F. Barlett, from Arthur E. Wilson&#8217;s popular history of early Providence Weybosset Bridge &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2022\/12\/12\/a-map-of-early-providence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-maps","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57818"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57883,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57818\/revisions\/57883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}