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City & county map of New York, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & adjacent waters

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division

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Maps of New York City and State

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New York City

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Title
City & county map of New York, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & adjacent waters
Additional title: City and county map of New York, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City and adjacent waters
Names
J.H. Colton & Co. (Publisher)
Collection

Maps of New York City and State

New York City

Manhattan

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1857 (Inferred)
Place: 172 William St., N.Y.
Publisher: J.H. Colton & Co.
Edition: Rev. ed. 1857
Library locations
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 19-279
Topics
New York (N.Y.)
Boston (Mass.)
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Jersey City (N.J.)
New York (N.Y.) -- Administrative and political divisions
Genres
Maps
Notes
Statement of responsibility: By J.H. Colton & Co.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 map on 2 sheets : hand colored ; 64 x 125 cm, sheets 73 x 63 cm or smaller
NYPL copy is in poor condition, portion of title, and border missing.
Description
Includes 6 insets: Map of New York City from an actual survey by James Lyne, 1728 -- Philadelphia -- Boston -- Dr. Adrien Van der Dunk's view of Nieuw Amsterdam, 1656 -- North or Hudson River -- Vicinity of New York showing the principal roads, rail-roads & canals with distance of villas from the city. Includes information from the survey of New York describing width of and distance between streets, and census statistics from 1614 to 1845. Shows wards. Relief shown by hachures, depth shown by soundings. Scale approximately 1:20,000 (W 74°01ʹ20ʺ--W 73°54ʹ47ʺ/N 40°52ʹ50ʺ--N 40°41ʹ41ʺ).
Type of Resource
Cartographic
Identifiers
Barcode: 33433087458927
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b21961012
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 57f5a160-ed72-0130-2162-58d385a7bbd0
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1857: Issued (Approximate)
  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "City & county map of New York, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & adjacent waters" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1857. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3a2a0ab0-fe0d-0130-7807-58d385a7b928

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "City & county map of New York, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & adjacent waters" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 24, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3a2a0ab0-fe0d-0130-7807-58d385a7b928

APA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1857). City & county map of New York, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & adjacent waters Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3a2a0ab0-fe0d-0130-7807-58d385a7b928

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<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/3a2a0ab0-fe0d-0130-7807-58d385a7b928 | title= (cartographic) City & county map of New York, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & adjacent waters, (1857) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=April 24, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

City & county map of New York, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & adjacent waters