Map of the Central Park

Item data

Title

Map of the Central Park

Collection

Maps of New York City and State
New York City
Manhattan

Names

Sibeth, Otto (Cartographer)
Bogart, John (Engineer)
Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895 (Architect)
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 (Architect)
New York (N.Y.), Department of Public Parks (Publisher)
Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm) (Architect)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1873 (Questionable)
Place: New York, N.Y.
Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Deptartment of Public Parks

Library Location

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 15-520 [Filed with NY oversized maps]

Subjects

Parks -- New York (State) -- New York (N.Y.)
Trails -- New York (State) -- New York (N.Y.)
Rivers -- New York (State) -- New York (N.Y.)
Reservoirs -- New York (State) -- New York (N.Y.)
Central Park (New York, N.Y.)

Genres

Maps

Notes

Content: Scale approximately 1:2,400 (W 73°59ʹ00ʺ--W 73°56ʹ50ʺ/N 40°48ʹ10ʺ--N 40°45ʹ50ʺ)
Content: Shows relief by spot heights.
Content: Oriented with north at right.
Content: Shows roads, trails, landscape, bridges, buildings and reservoirs.
Content: Includes text describing vegetation at bottom.
Citation/Reference: See "Central Park, the plant list of 1873, prepared by Robert Demcker landscape architect" for detailed map index of park vegetation.
Statement Of Responsibility: "printed for the Department of Public Parks."
Statement Of Responsibility: "John Bogart, engineer, Otto Sibeth, topo. draughtsman."
Statement Of Responsibility: "F.L. Olmsted, Calvert Vaux, landscape architects."

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map : color ; 49 x 182 cm

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 58758887
RLIN/OCLC: 58758887
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20584899
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 15.15.05
NYPL Exhibition ID: TL 17.09.026
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 0fb33650-c100-0132-c8e7-58d385a7bbd0

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1873

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