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1873 Beers Map or Plan of Brooklyn, New York City

CityOfBrooklyn-beers-1873
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The City of Brooklyn. - Main View
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1873 Beers Map or Plan of Brooklyn, New York City

CityOfBrooklyn-beers-1873

Beautiful map of Brooklyn highlighting Prospect Park and Greenwood Cemetery.

Title


The City of Brooklyn.
  1873 (undated)     15.5 x 23.5 in (39.37 x 59.69 cm)     1 : 21500

Description


A rare example of Fredrick W. Beers' Map Brooklyn, New York. Published in 1873, this map depicts Brooklyn, Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Features detail to the street level showing individual buildings, parks, and street names. Offers exceptional detail in Prospect Park and Greenwood Cemetery, areas generally neglected by earlier maps of the city. Prepared by Beers, Comstock & Cline out of their office at 36 Vesey Street, New York City, for inclusion in the first published atlas of Long Island, the 1873 issue of Atlas of Long Island, New York.

Cartographer


The Beers family (Fredrick, Silas, James and Daniel) (fl. c. 1850 - 1886), along with Charles and Augustus Warner, were prominent map publishers working from the 1850s to the late 1880s. Often publishing under the Warner & Beers designation, the combined firms produced a series of important state and county atlases and map of much of the northeastern United States. Many of their regional maps are among the most detailed and well laid out maps ever produced of their respective regions. Because Warner & Beers county maps were often detailed down to the individual homes and landowners, they have become highly sought after by general and family historians. In additional to producing maps of surpassing detail, Warner & Beers also maintained an earlier generation's attention to detail and quality while publishing in an era ever increasingly dominated by the low cost printing methods used by the publishing empires of Rand McNally and George Cram. More by this mapmaker...

Source


Atlas of Long Island, New York. From Recent Actual Surveys and Records Under the Superintendence of F. W. Beers. (1873 First Edition)    

Condition


Very good. Original centerfold shows wear and toning, with verso repair. Some edge wear. Narrow margins, with bottom margin extended. Left and right margin reinforced on verso.

References


New York Public Library, Map Division 1527263. Rumsey 0066.014. Philips (Atlases) 2202.