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Subject:        Re: Map images through an online catalog at NYPL
Date:   Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:29:00 -0500
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Dear mapsters,

Any maps appearing in NYPL's  CATNYP [our opac, ya know, catnip for the
Lions out front] -- anyway, maps in CATNYP which have been scanned and are
in our Digital Gallery, have a link in the catalog record on screen. Will
try to send thru an example.

OK, natch, all i get are ERROR message today, something wrong in the
system. But you can see we do try to make it obvious to the catalog user
when an image is available. that means that from home you can see these
images, when the system is not down, and you can print out quick-copy
versions. To get finer copies, Pictopia will supply for $$. or contact the
Map Div. directly when there are problems. We have our ways...of getting
the image to you if at all possible.

Alice






 Author
          Montrésor, John, 1736-1799.
 Title
          A plan of the city of New-York & its environs : to Greenwich, on
          the North or Hudsons River, and to Crown Point, on the East or
          Sound River, shewing the several streets, publick buildings,
          docks, fort & battery, with the true form & course of the
          commanding grounds, with and without the town : survey'd in the
          winter, 1775 [i.e. 1766] / John Montresor, engineer ; P. Andrews,
          sculp.
 Imprint
          [London] : Sold by A. Dury, Dukes Court, St. Martins Lane, [1775]
 Description
          1 map : hand col. ; 63 x 52 cm.





                                  Link to

                     Image(s) via NYPL Digital Gallery




        Location                  Call Number                Status

   Humanities- Maps       Map Div. 01-302                 AVAILABLE

   Humanities- Maps       Map Div. 97-6200     c.2        AVAILABLE




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 Scale, etc.
            Scale [ca. 1:6,300].
 Note
            Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings on inset.

            Oriented with north to upper right corner.

            "To the Honble. Thos. Gage, Esqr., Major General and Commander
            in Chief of His Majesty's forces in North America, and Colonel
            of the 22d regiment of foot, this plan is most humbly inscribd
            by his obedient servant."

            Described in Cohen's Manhattan in maps, 1527-1995, p. 72.
 References
            Stokes, I. N. P. Iconography of Manhattan Island, I, pl. 40, p.
            339-340
 Note
            Includes descriptive note, "References," and inset "A chart of
            the entrance to New York from Sandy Hook, shewing the properest
            channel for sailing, with ye banks and depths of water," ca.
            1:128,000.
 Local Notes
            Copy in Map Div. 97-6200 uncolored, in wooden frame.
 Subject
            New York (N.Y.) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.

            Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.

            Nautical charts -- New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Early
            works to 1800.
 Additional Name


            Andrews, Peter, fl. 1765-1782.







Alice C. Hudson
Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
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