Research Catalog

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Description

1. 1 map; 24 x 18 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection ; 832.
2. Emmet Collection ; 6974.
3. National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.

Uniform title

1. London magazine.

Alternative title

1. Map of New York Island : with the adjacent rocks and other remarkable parts of Hell-Gate

Subject

1. Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Maps > Early works to 1800
2. New York (N.Y.) > Maps > Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Map Div. 97-6193

Note

1. Relief shown pictorially.
2. "Printed ... at the Rose in Pater Noster Row."
3. In upper margin: For the London Magazine 1778.
4. Prime meridian: London.
5. From: London magazine, v. 47, Apr. 1778.

Indexed in (note)

1. Haskell
2. Maps in British periodicals

Author

1. Kitchin, Thomas, 1719-1784.

Title

1. Map of New York I. : with the adjacent rocks and other remarkable parts of Hell-Gate / by Thos. Kitchin., senr. hydrographer to his Majesty.

Imprint

1. [London] : Printed for R. Baldwin, [1778]

Cartographic data

1. Scale [ca. 1:95,000] (W 74⁰03ʹ--W 73⁰50ʹ/N 40⁰52ʹ--N 40⁰40ʹ).

Indexed in:

1. Haskell, 518
2. Maps in British periodicals, pt. 1, LOND-322

Local note

1. Copy in Map Div. 97-6193 hand col.
2. Copy in Map Div. 97-6193: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection.
3. Copy in Map Div. 01-1765: Emmet Collection.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added title

1. London magazine.

Research call number

1. Map Div. 97-6193 [LHS 832]
2. Map Div. 01-1765 [Filed with N.Y.C., 1778]
3. Map Div. 01-1766 [Filed with N.Y.C., 1778]