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

Contributors:

Dates

  • Issued: 1857
  • Coverage: 1857
  • Coverage: 1857 to 1857

Publishers

  • J.H. Colton & Co. (New York)

Summary

Relief shown by hachures, depth shown by soundings. Includes 6 insets: Map of New York City from an actual survey by James Lyne, 1728 -- Philadelphia -- Boston -- Dr. Adrien Van der Dunk's view of Nieuw Amsterdam, 1656 -- North or Hudson River -- Vicinity of New York showing the principal roads, rail-roads & canals with distance of villas from the city. Includes information from the survey of New York describing width of and distance between streets, and census statistics from 1614 to 1845. Shows wards.

63 x 127 centimeters

Scale approximately 1:20,000

City Maps

Subjects

  • New York (n.y.) Maps
  • New York (n.y.) Administrative and Political Divisions Maps
  • Maps
  • 2022-creator-sprint
  • New York--New York

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-74.15,-73.78,40.9,40.65)

Provider

University of Minnesota

Rights

  • Access rights: Public
  • Use of this item may be governed by US and international copyright laws. You may be able to use this item, but copyright and other considerations may apply. For possible additional information or guidance on your use, please contact the contributing organization.

Citation

J.H. Colton & Co. City & county map of New-York, Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & adjacent waters. J.H. Colton & Co. (New York). https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll205:338

Format

JPEG

Languages

  • eng