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Niagara River Area – War of 1812

Categories: 1812, New York, Niagara Falls, Niagara River, War of 1812

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Utica, New York – 1830

Categories: 1830, New York, Utica

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  • Title: Utica, New York
  • Date: 1830
  • Original Source: The Northern Traveller, and Northern Tour; with the Routes to The Springs, Niagara, and Quebec, and the Coal Mines of Pennsylvania; also, the Tour of New-England. New York, 1830
  • Publication Date: 1830
  • Web Source: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - U.S. Historical City Maps

New York City Region – 1830

Categories: 1830, New York, New York City, Northeast United States

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Map showing growth of New York City from date of first Settlement to 1836

Categories: 1836, New York, New York City

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New York (New York) 1840

Categories: 1840, New York, United States

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  • Title: New York (New York) 1840
  • Full Title: Map of the city of New York
  • Date: 1840
  • Publisher: J. Doggett, Jr.
  • Description: Covers Manhattan up to 19th St. on the west side and up to 33rd St. on the east side. Also covers parts of Brooklyn and Williamsburg.
  • Scale: not given.
  • Publication Date: 1848
  • Web Source: American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

New York City – 1842

Categories: 1842, New York, New York City

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Niagara Falls – 1844

Categories: 1844, Canada, New York, Niagara Falls, United States

niagara_1844

New York (New York) 1871, bays, harbors, rivers

Categories: 1871, New York, New York City, United States

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  • Title: New York (New York) 1871, bays, harbors, rivers
  • Full Title: Map of the bays, harbors and rivers around New York : showing the channels, soundings, lighthouses, buoys &c... and the complete topography of the surrounding country : including Hempstead, Sandy-Hook, South-Amboy, Newark, Yonkers, N. Rochelle & Glencove / based on the trigonometrical survey, executed in 1856, for the Harbor Commissioners of New York, by A.D. Bache, Superintendent of the U.S. Coast Survey
  • Date: 1871
  • Creator: Dripps, M. (Matthew)
  • Contributors: United States Coast Survey
  • Publisher: M. Dripps (New York)
  • Description: Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Cover title: Map of New-York & 30? miles around. Oriented with north to the upper left. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866 ... for the Southern District of New York."
  • Scale: ca. 1:80,000
  • Publication Date: 1871
  • Web Source: American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

Brooklyn (New York) 1879, including Kings Co.

Categories: 1879, Kings County, New York, United States

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  • Title: Brooklyn (New York) 1879, including Kings Co.
  • Full Title: Watson’s new map of Brooklyn including Kings Co. : from the latest official surveys showing all the latest improvements / published by Gaylord Watson
  • Date: 1879
  • Creator: Watson, Gaylord
  • Publisher: Gaylord Watson (New York)
  • Description: Colored areas correspond to wards and districts, parks, cemeteries and federal lands.
  • Scale: ca. 1:18,300
  • Publication Date: 1879
  • Web Source: American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

The Original Topography of Manhattan Island from the Battery to 155th Street – 1880

Categories: 1880, Manhattan, New York, New York City

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  • Title: The Original Topography of Manhattan Island from the Battery to 155th Street
  • Date: 1880
  • Original Source: Report on the Social Statistics of Cities, Compiled by George E. Waring, Jr., United States. Census Office, Part I, 1886
  • Publication Date: 1886
  • Web Source: Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - U.S. Historical City Maps

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