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Complete Record for Item NS12 M10.3.5

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Title:Map of the Narrows, Lower Bay, and Sandy Hook...
Item Type:Maps
Date:1881
Call Number NS12 M10.3.5

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Timby, Theodore R.

Creator Information (Organization)

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Notes

General_note: "These Plans are Designed for, and Adapted to, the Defence of Any Position or Locality."
Extent: 1 printed map
Dimensions: 56 x 71 cm
Local_note: accompanied: A-D, F-H, J) 8 Figures (1-4, 6-8, 10), ink and color wash on paper, illustrating "Timby's Planetary System Of Coast Defence" - all but C (Figure 3) bear the printer's statement: "New York Lithg. & Eng. Co. 16 & 18 Park Place"; K) printed manifesto by Timby (1p., 2 copies), dated November 1881; L) 2 certificates from the U.S. Patent Office dated 8 December 1881, attesting to the legitimacy of Timby's patent (2pp., 2 copies); and M) ALS (1p.), Timby to C.H. Fowler of Methodist Book Concern, dated 19 January 1882
Medium: black ink with color wash additions on paper

Geographic Location: [Linked to other records with the same Location]

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