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Complete Record for Item NS3 M36.1.10

Core Fields

Title:Plan of the City of New York and its environs . . .
Item Type:Maps
Date:1776
Call Number NS3 M36.1.10

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Ratzer, Bernard

Creator Information (Organization)

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Notes

General_note: There is a finely detailed, engraved drawing, taking up the bottom third of the map, of "A South West View of the City of New York, Taken from the Governor's Island" and showing the lower Manhattan skyline, ships, fishermen, a building fire, etc.
Extent: 1 printed map on 2 separate sheets
Dimensions: 62 x 91 cm. (each sheet)
Medium: black ink on paper, backed with cloth
General_note: Dedicated "to His Excellency Sir Henry Moore, Bart. Captain General and Governour in Chief, In and over his majesty's Province of New York and the territories depending thereon in America[,] Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the same . . .by his Excellency's most Obedt Humble Servant B. Ratzer, Lieut."
Added_corpname: Jefferys & Faden
Added_person: Kitchin, Thomas
Local_note: This copy of the Ratzer map was printed on 2 separate sheets, each identified as to the date and place of publication.

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

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

New Jersey

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