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Title
Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the environs
Names
Gedney, Thomas R. (Associated name)
United States Coast Survey (Publisher)
Bache, A. D. (Alexander Dallas), 1806-1867 (Associated name)
Lawson, Oscar A., 1813-1854 (Associated name)
Siebert, Selmar (Associated name)
Blunt, Edmund, 1799-1866 (Associated name)
Renard, C. (Associated name)
Sands, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1811-1883 (Associated name)
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776 (Associated name)
Knight, J. (Jonathan), 1787-1858 (Associated name)
Hassler, F. R. (Ferdinand Rudolph), 1770-1843 (Surveyor)
Humphreys, A. A. (Andrew Atkinson), 1810-1883 (Associated name)
Rollé, A. (Associated name)
Dankworth, Frederick, approximately 1804- (Associated name)
Farley, John, 1802 or 1803-1874 (Associated name)
Jenkins, T. A. (Associated name)
Mathiot, G. (Associated name)
Collection

Maps of New York City and State

New York City

New York Harbor

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1845
Place: [Washington, D.C.]
Publisher: Survey of the Coast of the United States
Library locations
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 00-14501
Topics
New York (N.Y.)
New Jersey
Harbors -- New York Metropolitan Area
Nautical charts -- New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
Nautical charts -- New York Metropolitan Area
Genres
Maps
Notes
Content: "Topography engraved by S. Siebert & A. Rolle ; views engraved by O.A. Lawson ; engraving supervised & views of the coast drawn by J. Farley ; hydrography engraved by F. Dankworth ; lettering by F. Dankworth & J. Knight."
Content: In upper right margin: Electrotype copy no. 7, by G. Mathiot U.S.C.S.
Content: Includes text, table of currents, and 4 coastal panoramas.
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: Prime Meridians: New York and Greenwich.
Citation/reference: Cohen, P.E. Manhattan in maps, 1527-1995, p. 122
Content: Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings.
Statement of responsibility: founded upon a trigonometrical survey under the direction of F.R. Hassler, superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States ; triangulation by James Ferguson and Edmund Blunt, assistants ; the hydrography under the direction of Thomas R. Gedney, lieutenant U.S. Navy ; the topography by C. Renard, T.A. Jenkins & B.F. Sands assists. ; A.D. Bache superintendent ; verified by Lieut. A.A. Humphreys, topl. engrs. assistant, U.S. Coast Survey.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 map ; 60 x 88 cm.
Type of Resource
Cartographic
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 30424558
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b14963776
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 05a170d0-c5ab-012f-1c11-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
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Item timeline of events

  • 1845: Issued
  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1845). Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the environs Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ef8e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the environs