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Complete Record for Item NS3 M36.5.70

Core Fields

Title:Plan of the City of New York in North America
Item Type:Maps
Date:1830
Call Number NS3 M36.5.70

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Ratzer, Bernard

Creator Information (Organization)

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Notes

General_note: Someone has pencilled in dates for a number of the sites and structures listed in a table of references, BL.
General_note: The printed name Thos. Hotchin is an error for Thomas Kitchin, the engraver of the original.
Extent: 1 printed map
Added_date: 1880
Dimensions: 55 x 43 cm.
Medium: black ink, with pencil additions, on paper backed with paper backed with board
Added_person: Kitchin, Thomas
Local_note: See other 19th-century reprints of Ratzer's survey: maps 134, 8753, 8802, and 9212.
General_note: This is an unacknowledged 19th-century reprint, reduced, of the 1776 (1770?) London printing by William Faden of a survey made by "B[ernard] Ratzer, Lieut. in His Majesty's 60th or Royal American Regt," engraved by Thomas Kitchin--NYHS map 9211. There are some additions and deletions to be spotted in the "Southwest view of the City of New York Taken from the Governours Island at * ."

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

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)

Lower Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

New Jersey

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