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Click on the date links to see NYC land atlases and maps: NYC Land Atlases (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island) NYC & vicinity 1776 / 1777 / 1781 / 1828 / 1835 / 1839 / 1842 1849 / 1849ii / 1873 / 1880 / 1909 / 1911 / 1922 New York Harbor 1733 / 1733ii / 1737 / 1749 or 1767 / 1750?
Completing the street and road network allows us to map each residence counted in the 1850, 1880, and 1910 censuses to a historically accurate address. Explore the map below and click on the dots to learn more about who lived at each address in Brooklyn, 1880: Brooklyn residences counted in the 1880 census, and mapped to the historical street grid.
Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas visualizes Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s transformations during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Drawing on 1850, 1880, and 1910 census data, it shows how migration, residential, and occupational patterns shaped the city.
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This group of maps includes the extent of NYPL's holding of real estate maps by William Perris (d.1862), the English-trained civil engineer and surveyor who originated the format. The Perris maps depict Manhattan and Brooklyn in the 1850s-1860s, when the two boroughs were still separate cities; their sequencing replicates their original published v...
The New York City conflagration of 1835, which destroyed 20 million dollars worth of property and bankrupted many small insurance companies, brought about substantial changes in the way insured property was identified and described; the Perris maps were one of the results. Beginning with Perris's earliest productions, the format of the maps has sta...
Hoehn, R. Philip, W. S. Peterson-Hunt and E. L. Woodruff. Union List of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps Held by Institutions in the United States and Canada. (c1976-1977) V. 1. Alabama to Missouri --V. 2. Montana to Wyoming; Canada and Mexico. Occasional paper; \no.2-3; Occasional paper (Western Association of Map Libraries); no. 2. Oswald, Diane L. Fi...
A Photographic Tour of the New York City in the 1880s. by Frederick Victor 160 Views. The 1880s was a decade of growth and transformation for New York City. This period saw the city expand its population, develop its infrastructure, and become a cultural and economic powerhouse.
Take a virtual tour of past Map Divsion exhibitions. Mapping New York's Shoreline: 1609 - 2009 [exhibition catalog] American Shores: Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850. "In thy map securely saile" : Maps, atlases, charts, and globes from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection.
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Maps by Decade shows digitized New York City street maps from the New York Public Library's Map Division published between . 1850 and 1950, grouped by decade. Use it to compare urban geography across time, and marvel at the countours of New York City's past.
