York : Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City & the Adjacent Waters (York) 1857

Old facsimile of Boston, Brooklyn, Brookyln (New York), Hudson River Valley, Jersey City, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, New York (State), New York City, New York Metropolitan Area, New York Metropolitian Area, New York Region, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States, Williamsburg, Williamsburg (New York).

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.

Created by Millard Fillmore, J.H. Colton & Co, James Lyne in 1857.

• 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.

Map Tags

1857

Administrative And Political Divisions

Boston

Boston (Mass.)

Brooklyn

Brooklyn (New York N.Y.)

Brookyln (New York)

Early Works To 1800

Facsimiles

Harbors

Hudson River Valley

Hudson River Valley (N.Y. And N.J.)

J.H. Colton & Co

James Lyne

Jersey City

Jersey City (N.J.)

Map

Maps

Massachusetts

Millard Fillmore

New Jersey

New York

New York (N.Y.)

New York (State)

New York City

New York Metropolitan Area

New York Metropolitian Area

New York Region

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia

Philadelphia (Pa.)

United States

Williamsburg

Williamsburg (New York N.Y.)

Williamsburg (New York)