These books, produced from the archives of the Library of Congress and edited by Vincent Virga, offer a glimpse into the history of the United States through rare historical full-color maps, narrative captions, and short essays. Combining 50 rare, beautiful, and diverse maps from the collections of the Library of Congress, a foreword by Vincent Virga about the Library of Congress collection and the Massachusetts maps, informative captions about the origins and contents of those maps, and essays on state history, this book is a collectible for cartography buffs and a celebration of Massachusetts for residents, former residents, and visitors.

...Thoroughly documents the fact that despite the current economic challenges facing the region, Boston is emerging as a preeminent knowledge-based city; identifies a number of other facts important for evaluating the city's growth prospects including fiscal management and existence of other growth-based industries; makes recommendations for sustaining economic growth; an appendix includes brief profiles of corporations in key growth industries; two separately published statistical appendices have been separately indexed; copies of this item were in the BRA collection...