About This Item

  • TitleNew York, From a Balloon.
  • Call NumberMAP_1871-02-01
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Maps collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryAerial view of New York City and environs. A generalized pictorial illustration of New Jersey, New York and Brooklyn from above. Railroads and towns indicated. Text block inset: Eighteen miles around New York … mid-air above Fort Hamilton, at the outlet of the Narrows. Published in Harper's Weekly supplement, May 6, 1871.
  • Date1871
  • Formatcartographicstill image
  • Physical Description1 map : color ; 15.75 x 11.125 in.
  • Genreaerial viewsmaps (documents)
  • CreatorHarper's weekly : a journal of civilization
  • PublisherHarper & Brothers
  • SubjectNew York (N.Y.)--Maps ; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Maps ; New Jersey--Maps ; Queens (New York, N.Y.)--Maps ; New York (N.Y.)--Aerial views
  • CollectionBrooklyn Maps collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)New JerseyNew York (N.Y.)Queens (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsThis work is in the Public Domain. The Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library can provide a copy of this work free of charge.