{"id":7594,"date":"2013-06-07T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T11:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=7594"},"modified":"2013-06-07T14:48:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T11:48:30","slug":"lovecrafts-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/06\/07\/lovecrafts-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Lovecraft&#8217;s streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very large scale public-domain boundary maps of Providence, scanned from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~rigenweb\/maps\/1918prov\/index.html\">Plat Book of the City of Providence Rhode Island, 1918<\/a><\/em>.  There&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~rigenweb\/maps\/1918prov\/1918ProvidenceIndexMap.jpg\">Overview of sections<\/a>&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/2013-06-07_124544.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/2013-06-07_124544.jpg\" alt=\"2013-06-07_124544\" width=\"500\" height=\"534\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7595\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rootsweb.ancestry.com\/~rigenweb\/maps\/1918prov\/map-scans.html\">hi-res scans of the plates of each section<\/a>. 160ft to the inch, giving incredible amounts of detail (and also the names of the owner of each house plot) of the streets of Providence.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably surveyed during the First World War, Lovecraft then about age 26 or 27. Compare with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/providence_1891_geological_survey.jpg\">1891 Survey map<\/a> to see how the area north of Lovecraft&#8217;s home was built up from the 1890s to 1918.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very large scale public-domain boundary maps of Providence, scanned from the Plat Book of the City of Providence Rhode Island, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2013\/06\/07\/lovecrafts-streets\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594","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=7594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}