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Higginson's map of Kings and a large part of Queens counties - from actual surveys.
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Higginson's map of Kings and a large part of Queens counties - from actual surveys.

General-content map of the present-day borough of Brooklyn (Kings County, New York City) and the western part of Queens County (now the borough of Queens in New York City). Shows incorporated cities, towns (townships), roads, rural buildings, and rural householders' names; shows street system in urban areas. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Hand colored to distinguish administrative areas of cities and towns (townships). "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1860 by J.H. Higginson in the. Southern District of New York." 1860", missing small internal sections along vertical cut line.

Date
1860
Mapmaker / publisher
Higginson, J. H.; Mclellan, David
Place
Brooklyn, New York City
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
10,136 × 9,406 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Higginson's map of Kings and a large part of Queens counties - from actual surveys." (1860). Higginson, J. H.; Mclellan, David. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Higginson%27s_map_of_Kings_and_a_large_part_of_Queens_counties_-_from_actual_surveys._LOC_2013593267.jpg

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