Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Includes for the most part published maps, 1629-[ongoing].

Maps are described individually and are best discovered using keyword searches (check "include box list"). When requesting maps, please indicate folder and item number.

The description of this collection is in process and is currently underway; new items are being added on an ongoing basis.

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Entered according to an act of Congress, 16th day of July 1812. Compiled from actual survey

Amos Ley - cartographer

7 mi to 1 in

78 cm x 127 cm

Subject/Index Terms: New York--History--Maps.

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With an index giving the population and location of all the counties and principal towns in the State of New York, Rand McNally & Co.

no scale given

58.5 cm x 51.5 cm

Inset: Long Island

9 mi to 1 in

Subject/Index Terms: New York--History--Railroads--Maps.

Scope and Contents Highways, Railroads, Canals, Air Lanes, and Dredged Channels. Published in accordance with Act of Congress approved Nov. 9, 1921, creating the Federal Aid Highway System by the Federal Works Agency, Public Roads Administration. 7 sheetsin color 4 mi to 1 in 66 cm x 92 cm (each sheet)Gift of the U.S. Public Roads Administration, Washington DC, September 3, 1941 (Mss.Acc. 1941.140) Subject/Index Terms: New...

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Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by A. Brown & Co.

0.36 mi to 1 in

48.5 cm x 62 cm

Subject/Index Terms: Brooklyn (NY)--Maps.

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Showing Width & Location of Streets &c. with Map of Prospect Park and Horse Car & Elevated Rail Road Routes.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880 by Mathew Dripps, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, U.S.

Robert A Welcke-Photo - lithographer

no scale given

61 cm x 48.5 cm

Subject/Index Term: Brooklyn (NY)--History--Maps.

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G. W. & C. B. Colton & Co.

1,600 ft to 1 in

92 cm x 75.5 cm

Inset: The Area of Brooklyn at Successive Periods

2 mi to 1 in

Subject/Index Terms: Brooklyn (NY)--History--Maps.

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[Facsimile]

Robarte Ryder - cartographer

4 mi to 1 in

54 cm x 84 cm

Original at John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, Providence RI

Subject/Index Term: Long Island (NY)--History--Maps.

Scope and Contents English copy of a map made for Dutch authorities which may have been handed over to the English by the last Dutch governor of New York, Pieter Stuyvesant following the surrender of the town in September 1664 and probably accompanied the town's request to the Duke of York (King James II) to agree to be its patron. It is the last map to use the name "New Amsterdam." From Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York, by David T. Valentine, 1858 "British Museum November 8/58 - I hereby...

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The "Governor Bradford Map,"

James Lynne - surveyor

Henry Dunreath Tyler - map maker

[facsimile]

280 ft to 1 in

54.5 cm x 71 cm

Subject/Index Terms: New York (NY)--History--Maps.

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George Hayward - lithographer

1/4 mi to 1 in

43 cm x 55 cm

Subject/Index Terms: New York (NY)--Maps.

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Highways, Railroads, Canals, Air Lanes and Dredged Channels. Published in accordance with Act of Congress approved Nov. 9, 1921, creating the Federal Aid Highway System by the Federal Works Agency, Public Roads Administration

in color

2 mi to 1 in

66 cm x 91.5 cm

Gift of the U.S. Public Roads Administration, Washington DC, September 3, 1941 (Mss.Acc. 1941.140)

Subject/Index Terms: New York (NY)--Transportation--Maps.