COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Short Title:
New York Bay, Harbor.
Obj Height cm:
65
Obj Width cm:
89
Scale 1:
80,000
Note:
Engraved nautical chart. Relief shown by hachures; depths by soundings. Includes 4 coastal views and notes. Covers Lower Manhattan, Brooklyn, Jersey City, New York Bay, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook, Newark Bay, South Oyster Bay, Hempstead Bay, Staten Island, etc. In upper margin "Presented under authority of an act of Congress of the United States of June 3d 1844 by direction of the Treasury Department, A.D. Bache Superintendent Coast Survey." Prime meridians: Greenwich and New York.
Reference:
Guthorn, p. 72; PMaps, p. 543.
Full Title:
Map of New-York Bay and Harbor and the environs. From a trigonometrical survey under the direction of F.R. Hassler, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States. Triangulation by James Ferguson and Edmund Blunt, assistants. The hydrography under the direction of Thomas R. Gedney, Lieutenant, U.S. Navy. The topography by C. Renard, T.A. Jenkins & B.F. Sands, assists. Published in 1845. A.D. Bache, Superintendent. Topography engraved by S. Siebert & A. Rolle, views engraved by O.A. Lawson. Engraving supervised & views of the coast drawn by J. Farley. Hydrography engraved by F. Dankworth, lettering by F. Dankworth & J. Knight. Electrotype copy no. 5 by G. Mathiot, U.S.C.S. (with logo) U.S. Coast Survey Depot.
List No:
2470.020
Series No:
24
Pub Date:
1854
Pub Title:
(Covers to) Maps and charts of the United States Coast Survey. A.D. Bache, Superintendent. To July, 1854.
Pub Reference:
P1269; U.S. Atlases L 167.
Pub Note:
See note field above.
Pub List No:
2470.000
Pub Maps:
57
Pub Height cm:
31
Pub Width cm:
28
Image No:
2470020
Institution:
Rumsey Collection
Ownership Statement:
Copyright 2007
Publisher Location:
Washington
Publisher:
U.S.
Type:
Atlas Map
Type:
Chart Map
State/Province:
New Jersey
State/Province:
New York
City:
New York (N.Y.)
Region:
New York Bay
Engraver or Printer:
Blunt, Edmund M. (Edmund March), 1770-1862
Engraver or Printer:
Dankworth, Frederick, b. ca. 1804
Engraver or Printer:
Farley, J.
Engraver or Printer:
Ferguson, James
Engraver or Printer:
Gedney, Thomas R.
Engraver or Printer:
Jenkins, T.A.
Engraver or Printer:
Knight, J.
Engraver or Printer:
Lawson, O. A.
Engraver or Printer:
Renard, C.
Engraver or Printer:
Rolle, A.
Engraver or Printer:
Sands, B. F.
Engraver or Printer:
Siebert, Selmar
Publication Author:
Bache, A. D.
Publication Author:
United States Coast Survey
Pub Type:
Chart Atlas
Author:
Bache, A. D.
Author:
Hassler, F. R.
Date:
1845
New York Bay, Harbor.
