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Topographical map of Union County, New Jersey

General-content map showing built-up areas, urban buildings, rural buildings with occupants' names, extant/planned streets, woods, orchards, and marshes. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored (watercolors) to emphasize township boundaries and territories. "Orders for maps to be addressed to Ernest L. Meyer, City Surveyor, Elizabeth, N.J., or B. Westermann & Co., 440 Broadway, N.Y." "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by Ernest L. Meyer & P. Witzel in the. Southern District of New York." Originally printed on 2 or 4 sheets (as wall map?) which may or may not correspond with the present fold lines. T. Crane".

Date
1862
Mapmaker / publisher
Meyer, Ernest L.; Witzel, P.; Crane, W. T.; Westermann & Co
Place
Union County, New Jersey
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
map
Original size
17,252 × 12,638 pixels

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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

"Topographical map of Union County, New Jersey" (1862). Meyer, Ernest L.; Witzel, P.; Crane, W. T.; Westermann & Co. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Topographical_map_of_Union_County,_New_Jersey_LOC_2012593682.jpg

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