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Complete Record for Item .1: N-YHS Exhibition - July 9, 1776

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Title:The plan of the City of New York & its environs to Greenwich, on the North or Hudsons River, and to Crown Point, on the East or Sound River, shewing the several streets, publick buildings, docks, fort & battery with the true form & course of the commanding grounds
Item Type:Maps
Date:1876
Call Number NS3 M36.5.71
Call Number .1: N-YHS Exhibition - July 9, 1776

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Montresor, John

Creator Information (Organization)

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Notes

Local_note: Copy 2: border (including vignettes) has been cut away.
Local_note: See original maps: Map 8918 (1766) and map 6791 (1775), from which this Harper's reprint was taken. Pencil note verso copy 2 states: "Reproduction based on Montresor Map second issue [NYHS map 6791] with many additions not shown in the original Montresor maps."
Extent: 1 printed map
Dimensions: 41 x 58 cm.
Medium: black ink on paper, backed with cloth backed with board
Added_person: Gage, Thomas
Added_corpname: Harper's Weekly
Local_note: Map 9466 .2 is neg #41848.
General_note: The map, from the February 19, 1876, supplement to Harper's Weekly, is a duplication of Montresor's 1775 survey map dedicated to Major General Gage; it provides names of landowners and has depictions of churches, City Hall, the Royal Exchange, and "New York one Hundred Years Ago."

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Lower Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

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