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Complete Record for Item NS4 M31.5.1A

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Title:To his excellency George Clinton, Esq. . . .This plan of the City of New York and its environs . . .
Item Type:Maps
Date:1785
Call Number NS4 M31.5.1A

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Hills, John

Creator Information (Organization)

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Notes

General_note: A recto ms. note by the Council clerk D.T. Valentine, bottom center, dated Aug. 5th, 1847, records the gratitude of the Common Council for the gift of this historically significant map by its owner John Lozier.
Added_person: Clinton, George
General_note: See NYHS map 5795 for the printed reproduction, by George Hayward's Lithography, in the 1848 edition of Valentine's Manual.
Added_person: Valentine, David T.
Extent: 1 manuscript map on 6 separate sheets
Dimensions: 152 x 170 cm. (overall)
Medium: black and color ink, black pencil, and color wash on paper backed with cloth
Added_corpname: Common Council of the City of New York
Added_person: Lozier, John
General_note: This is the unique ms. original which served as the basis for numerous 19th-century printed reproductions. There are color-key references, BR, to military works erected by the two sides in the Revolutionary War, as surveyed by Lieut. Hills of the British forces.

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Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)

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