1898 Map of the Borough of Brooklyn Engraved for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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Guide Map of the Borough of Brooklyn, King’s County, New York.
One of the Earliest Maps to show the Borough of Brooklyn
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One of the Earliest Maps to show the Borough of Brooklyn
This richly detailed 1898 map of Brooklyn - is the first map to show Brooklyn as a borough, in the aftermath of the city's annexation by New York City. Though he is not credited on this map, it was drawn by R. D. Servoss - a New York Lithographer whose work for Edsall and other map publishers appears across a span of over fifty years. The map is expertly detailed, focusing primarily on all the mass transportation available at the time, showing existing and proposed streets and railroads, elevated lines, cable cars, trolleys and horse-trolley routes. The map shows and names piers, as well as ferry routes to Manhattan and New Jersey. The map was issued by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, for inclusion in that newspaper's Almanac for the year 1900. This strikes an ironic note, as The Eagle had opposed New York’s absorption of the City of Brooklyn in the 1894 vote.Publication History and Census
OCLC lists six examples of this separate map in institutional collections; examples appear on the market, however.Cartographer
Robert D. Servoss (1854 - August 9, 1919) was a New York and Brooklyn based engraver active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Servoss was born in Connecticut. He worked for various printers in New York before establishing his own firm, Servoss Publishing, in 1897. Despite his appearance in print described as ‘the well known mapmaker,’(The Publishers' Weekly, November 10, 1906 p. 1306) his place in the bibliographical record is inscrutable. H There are several important patents in his name associated with the development of Wax Process printing - a major evolution in printing in the early 20th century that dramatically economized the process. He also published an interesting work The Building of a Book, in 1907, serving as a kind of encyclopedia of turn of the century printing techniques, compiled by the master printers who used them. In addition to his printing work, he appears to have been an avid cyclist, and a longtime member of the Long Island Wheelmen - a club of 'tourist bicyclists who do not race.' Servoss died in Brooklyn in 1919. Further Details...
Condition
Good. Mended surface tear at insertion point, some mended splits at folds.
References
OCLC 58758680.