Image Title

:  Map of the country thirty three miles around the city of New York / drawn by G.W. Colton ; engraved by J.M. Atwood, N.Y.

Alternate Title

: Thirty three miles around the city of New-York

Creator

: Colton, G. Woolworth (George Woolworth), 1827-1901  -- Cartographer

Additional Name(s)

: Colton, J. H. (Joseph Hutchins), 1800-1893  -- Publisher
Atwood, John M., b. ca. 1818  -- Engraver

Published Date

: 1849

Item Physical Description

: 1 map : hand col. ; 51 cm. diameter on sheet 60 x 60 cm., folded in cover 14 x 8 cm.

Notes

: "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1846, by J.H. Colton in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York." Note 2.) Circular map showing radial distances. Note 3.) Gordon Lester Ford Collection. Note 4.) Includes notes and decorative borders with inset ill. of City Hall, New York and City Hall, Brooklyn. Note 5.) National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard. Note 6.) NYPL copy has autograph inside front cover: B. McDonald. Note 7.) Relief shown by hachures and depths shown by soundings. Note 8.) Cover title in gold letters around a map of New York.

Standard Reference

: Haskell, D.C. Manhattan maps, 912

Source

: Maps of New York City and State / New York City / Whole

Location

: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division

Catalog Call Number

: Map Div. 00-449 [Filed flat with cover]

Digital ID

: 433936

Record ID

: 252789

Digital Item Published

: 2-3-2004; updated 3-25-2011