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You are viewing a rare image of The City of New York as laid out by the Commissioners with the surrounding country / by their secretary and surveyor John Randel, Junr. It was taken in 1821.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.).
Street planning map. Covers all of Manhattan Island (New York, N.Y.) and substantial parts of adjacent counties in New York and New Jersey. Shows existing and proposed streets; also buildings and other structures, streams and other wetlands, political boundaries. Shows relief by hachures. Includes illustrations of surveying equipment used by the author. Includes extensive text in left, right and lower margins outside neat line. Includes 2 ancillary maps: Map of the States of Connecticut and Rhode Island with parts of New York, ...; The City of Philadelphia with the surrounding country by John Randel Junr. Mounted on cloth and taped to brown binding. "Longitude East from London." Scale ca. 1:42,000.
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