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New map of Kings and Queens counties, New York - from actual surveys.
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New map of Kings and Queens counties, New York - from actual surveys.

General-content map of the present-day borough of Brooklyn (Kings County, New York City) and the entire pre-1899 area of Queens County. Also covers Nassau County which was formed from the eastern part of Queens County in 1899. Shows incorporated cities, towns (townships), numbered districts, roads, rural buildings, and rural householders' names; shows street systems in urban areas. Shows 1-mile radial distances from N.Y. City Hall (Manhattan). Relief shown by hachures. Partially hand-colored. "Copyrighted 1886 J.B. Beers & Co." Mounted in western/eastern segments (sheets). 2 copies

Date
1886
Mapmaker / publisher
J. Beers & Co
Place
Brooklyn, New York City
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
16,713 × 15,018 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.

Credit line

"New map of Kings and Queens counties, New York - from actual surveys." (1886). J. Beers & Co. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_map_of_Kings_and_Queens_counties,_New_York_-_from_actual_surveys._LOC_2013593269.tif

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