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Additional authors

1. Chas. Copley & Sons, issuing body

Description

1. 1 map : hand colored; 87 x 119 cm

Donor/Sponsor

1. Mercator Society Fund, 2002.

Subject

1. Nautical charts -- Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)
2. Nautical charts -- New York Bight (N.J. and N.Y.)
3. Nautical charts -- New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
4. Nautical charts -- Massachusetts -- Massachusetts Bay
5. Hell Gate (New York, N.Y.) -- Maps

Genre/Form

1. Nautical charts.

Call number

1. Map Div. 03-416

Note

1. Nautical chart of the waters surrounding Long Island, N.Y.
2. Depths shown by soundings and bathymetric contours.
3. Title from label pasted on verso.
4. Author attribution and publication date based on "Authorities" note on map: This chart was drawn by Charles Copley, hydrographer (by special permission of the Secretary of the Treasury), from the original maps ... by the U.S. Coast Survey ... New York, January 1st, 1860.
5. "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858 by C., C.J. & F.S. Copley ..."
6. Colored only to show locations of lighthouses.
7. Insets: Chart of Massachusetts Bay -- Chart of the East River entrance to New York -- Hell Gate and its approaches.

Author

1. Copley, Charles, cartographer.

Title

1. Long Island.

Publisher

1. New York : Charles Copley & Sons, [1860]

Cartographic data

1. Scale approximately 1:178,000 (W 74°20ʹ--W 71°50ʹ/N 41°24ʹ--N 40°23ʹ).

Type of content

1. cartographic image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet

Place of publication

1. United States New York (State) New York.

Added author

1. Chas. Copley & Sons, issuing body.

Research call number

1. Map Div. 03-416 [Oversize - Filed with United States Parts & Locals Oversize]