Map City & county map of New-York : Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & the adjacent waters City and county map of New-York

Title

• City & county map of New-York : Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & the adjacent waters

Other Title

• City and county map of New-York

Summary

• City street map showing built-up areas, streetcar/railroad lines, river piers (numbered, proprietors identified), municipal wards (numbered), and projected street-system grid to the northern end of Manhattan Island.

Names

• J.H. Colton & Co., cartographer, publisher.
• Lyne, James, cartographer.
• Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874.

Created / Published

• N.Y. [New York] : J.H. Colton & Co., [1857]

Headings

• -  New York (N.Y.)--Maps
• -  New York (N.Y.)--Administrative and political divisions--Maps
• -  New York (N.Y.)--Maps--Early works to 1800--Facsimiles
• -  New York Metropolitan Area--Maps
• -  New York Region--Maps
• -  Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Maps
• -  Jersey City (N.J.)--Maps
• -  Williamsburg (New York, N.Y.)--Maps
• -  Philadelphia (Pa.)--Maps
• -  Boston (Mass.)--Maps
• -  Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)--Maps
• -  Harbors--New York (State)--New York--Maps
• -  United States--New York (State)--New York
• -  United States--New York (State)--New York Region
• -  United States--New York (State)--New York Metropolitian Area
• -  United States--New York (State)--Brookyln (New York)
• -  United States--New Jersey--Jersey City
• -  United States--New York (State)--Williamsburg (New York)
• -  United States--New York (State)--Hudson River Valley
• -  United States--New Jersey--Hudson River Valley
• -  United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
• -  United States--Massachusetts--Boston

Genre

• Maps
• Facsimiles

Notes

• -  Relief shown by hachures; depths shown by soundings.
• -  Titie from map area (upper center); there in no title on the cover.
• -  Oriented with north toward the upper right.
• -  Hand colored to emphasize shorelines, municipal boundaries, and ward extents.
• -  "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1857 by J.H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the Dist. Court for the South'n Dist. of New York."
• -  Originally printed on 4 sheets (later conjoined).
• -  Sectioned to 18 panels to enable folding.
• -  Ward maps of United States cities, no. 159.
• -  Includes texts, 2 statistical tables (street dimensions and census data), indexes to points-of-interest for the inset maps, engraved low-angle view of early "Nieuw Amsterdam" (1656), and embellished border.
• -  Insets: Map of New York City from an actual survey by James Lyne 1728 -- Philadelphia -- Boston -- Vicinity of New York showing the principal roads, rail-roads & canals, with distance of villas from the city -- North or Hudson River [valley from New York to Glens Falls].
• -  The cover (on verso) is affixed as 2 separate panels.

Medium

• 1 map : color, mounted on cloth backing ; 65 x 130 cm, folded in cover 26 x 24 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

• G3804.N4 1857 .J2

Repository

• Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

• http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3804n.fi000110l

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2015591060

Online Format

• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2015591060

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