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Scale approximately 1:35, Historical maps in BHS’s collection span the years 1562 to 2015 and depict the five boroughs, New York City, Long Island, New York State, New Jersey, New England, the mid-Atlantic, the eastern United States, and beyond.
Aug 17, 2020 · A newly-launched online mapping system called 1940s NYC makes it simple for anyone to find historical images of the city captured from 1939 to 1941 by the New York City Tax Department in collaboration with the Works Progress Administration. The photography initiative involved capturing images of every home, shop and other buildings in all five ...
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Several hundred prints and photographs offering the complete content of a wide range of selected image collections and illustrated monographs: Hudson River mansions, including Washington Irving's home and vicinity in the 1860s; street views by Alice Austen from 1896; a panorama of Fifth Avenue from 1911, and more.
It was natural for the founding libraries and benefactors of NYPL to collect local and regional pictorial publications, a fact that explains the strength of 19th- and early 20th-century books picturing New York City and vicinity in the Library's holdings. In addition, Library staff actively sought to supplement books with original archival material...
Butler, Joseph T. Washington Irving's Sunnyside(c1974). Gray, Christopher, ed. Fifth Avenue, 1911, from start to finish in historic block-by-block photographs (c1994). Hanson, David A. "A.A. Turner, American photolithographer" History of photography10 (July/Sept 1986): 193-211 Lynch, Virginia. Washington Irving footprints (1922). Novotny, Ann. Alic...
Apr 27, 2021 · BPL's Center for Brooklyn History opened its maps collection last Thursday with about 1,500 maps of NYC and surrounding areas that have been digitized. You can search for maps of Brooklyn ...
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May 21, 2015 · In a city transforming at the speed of light, nostalgia for an older New York, death knells for Brooklyn, and trepidation at creeping change in the outer boroughs is widespread. As Adam Gopnik writes in Through the Children’s Gate: A Home in New York, “The [mental] map of the city we carried just five years ago hardly...
Oct 29, 2023 · An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods
Feb 15, 2018 · Streetwise Brooklyn Map is a laminated city center map of Brooklyn, New York. The accordion-fold pocket size travel map has integrated subway station locations. A complete index of streets, points of interest, education, culture, transportation and parks is clearly listed. Coverage includes: Main Brooklyn Map 1:38,000 Downtown Brooklyn Map 1:12,500
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