Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn.
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Title
Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn.
Collection
Maps of New York City and State
New York City
Brooklyn
Names
Douglass, David Bates, 1790-1849 (Surveyor)
Currier, Charles, 1818-1887 (Lithographer)
Date / Origin
Date Issued: 1847 (Questionable)
Place: Brooklyn? :
Publisher: City Corporation?,
Library Location
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 01-1937 [Filed with Brooklyn]
Subjects
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Maps
Canals -- New York (State) -- New York
Drainage -- New York (State) -- New York
Gowanus Canal (New York, N.Y.) -- Maps
Genres
Notes
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: Probably published to accompany Major Douglass' report on the drainage and graduation of that part of the city of Brooklyn, which lies over, and adjacent to, the Gowanus Meadows 1847.
Physical Description
Extent: 2 maps ; 26 x 75 cm. and 25 x 53 cm.
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 46942704
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b15040601
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8720a9d0-c5aa-012f-81ce-58d385a7bc34
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Date Issued
1847
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1847. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8720a9d0-c5aa-012f-81ce-58d385a7bc34
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1847). Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8720a9d0-c5aa-012f-81ce-58d385a7bc34
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Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 9, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8720a9d0-c5aa-012f-81ce-58d385a7bc34
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