Statement Of Responsibility: G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co., New York.
Content: Shows roads, railroads, cities and towns, and radial distances from New York City Hall.
Content: Also covers Manhattan and portions of Staten Island, New Jersey, and the Bronx.
Statement Of Responsibility: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1889, by G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. in the Office of the Librarian at Congress at Washington."
Funding: Mapping the Nation (NEH grant, 2015-2018)

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map : color ; 37 x 156 cm, on sheet 38 x 158 cm

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 943047815
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20645794
Other local Identifier: US161.3.01
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 08078750-cdb4-0133-57eb-00505686a51c

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1892

Cite this item

MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Colton's road map of Long Island" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1892. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/08078750-cdb4-0133-57eb-00505686a51c

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1892). Colton's road map of Long Island Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/08078750-cdb4-0133-57eb-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Colton's road map of Long Island" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 6, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/08078750-cdb4-0133-57eb-00505686a51c

Wikipedia citation

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