and cultural institutions that formed the city’s multilayered identity
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predating by more than a century and a half the better-known Victorian county atlases that would later cover the same ground
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Old Map of East-Central London in 1900 by Unknown Cartographer - Tower of London, The Thames, Isle of Dogs, London Docks, Shoreditch Size:24x32 inch - UNFRAMED and cultural institutions that formedUnlike the grand decorative atlases of the Victorian era, this map of east central London from around 1900 belongs to a much more workaday tradition: the commercially produced street plan, the kind sold to visitors, businessmen, and residents who needed to navigate a rapidly changing part of the city rather than admire it. Its exact publisher is not recorded, which was not unusual for the many pocket plans and directory maps churned out by London's