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Map of New-York City

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5089368


Item data

Title

Map of New-York City

Collection

Maps of New York City and State
New York City
Manhattan

Names

Matthews-Northrup Company (Creator)
Trow City Directory Company (Publisher)

Date / Origin

Date Issued: 1884
Place: New York
Publisher: Trow City Directory Co.

Table Of Contents

[Southern Manhattan and adjacent Brooklyn]--[Northern Manhattan and western Bronx].

Library Location

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 15-699

Subjects

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)
New York (N.Y.)
Streets -- New York (State) -- New York (N.Y.)

Genres

Maps

Notes

Statement Of Responsibility: prepared expressly for the Trow City Directory Co. by Matthews, Northrup & Co.
Content: Oriented with north to the upper left of sheet.
Content: Shows radial distances from City Hall.
Version Identification: NYPL Map Div. copy 2: 2 sheets mounted end-to-end on 1 cloth, so that 2 sheets are in proper geographic relationship to each other.
Content: Scale [ca. 1:21,500]. (W 74°01ʹ21ʺ--W 73°51ʹ29ʺ/N 40°54ʹ36ʺ--N 40°41ʹ59ʺ)

Physical Description

Extent: 1 map on 2 sheets : col. ; 129 x 39 cm, sheets 67 x 44 cm

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 76877786
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20593846
Barcode: 33433068110901
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): bfa87210-34a3-0134-b270-00505686a51c

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Cartographic

Date Issued

1884

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MLA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Map of New-York City" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1884. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bfa87210-34a3-0134-b270-00505686a51c

APA format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1884). Map of New-York City Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bfa87210-34a3-0134-b270-00505686a51c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Map of New-York City" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/bfa87210-34a3-0134-b270-00505686a51c

Wikipedia citation

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