Map of the city of Brooklyn, and village of Williamsburg : showing the size of blocks and width of streets as laid out by the Commissioners, the old farm lines, water line, and all recent changes in streets
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Title
Map of the city of Brooklyn, and village of Williamsburg : showing the size of blocks and width of streets as laid out by the Commissioners, the old farm lines, water line, and all recent changes in streets
Collection
Maps of New York City and State
New York City
Brooklyn
Names
Butt, Richard (Surveyor)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1846
Place: [New York?]
Publisher: ... Richard Butt,
Library Location
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 01-1836
Subjects
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Administrative and political divisions
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Maps
Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.) -- Maps
Genres
Notes
Content: "[Entere]d according to act of Congress, in the year 1846 by Richard Butt in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York."
Content: Ford Collection.
Content: Includes note.
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: Oriented with north to the lower right.
Content: Shows wards for city of Brooklyn.
Statement Of Responsibility: laid down from accurate surveys & documents, compiled, lithographed & published by Richard Butt, surveyor, 1846.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 map in 2 sheets : hand col. ; 73 x 109 cm., sheets 73 x 55 cm.
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 46535328
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15002354
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8652be20-c5aa-012f-fbba-58d385a7bc34
Rights
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Date Issued
1846
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Map of the city of Brooklyn, and village of Williamsburg : showing the size of blocks and width of streets as laid out by the Commissioners, the old farm lines, water line, and all recent changes in streets" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1846. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8652be20-c5aa-012f-fbba-58d385a7bc34
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1846). Map of the city of Brooklyn, and village of Williamsburg : showing the size of blocks and width of streets as laid out by the Commissioners, the old farm lines, water line, and all recent changes in streets Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8652be20-c5aa-012f-fbba-58d385a7bc34
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Map of the city of Brooklyn, and village of Williamsburg : showing the size of blocks and width of streets as laid out by the Commissioners, the old farm lines, water line, and all recent changes in streets" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 17, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8652be20-c5aa-012f-fbba-58d385a7bc34
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