Map of the Month - May 2011

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This month's featured map dates from 1896 and shows the Bay Ridge Channel, Red Hook Channel, Buttermilk Channel, Gowanus Canal, and Gowanus Creek Channel. Created to accompany the annual report of H.M. Adams of the U.S. Corps of Engineers, the map documents the Corps' planned improvements to the area. Enjoy!

|a Bay Ridge and Red Hook Channels, Buttermilk Channel, Gownus Canal and Gowanus Creek Channel, New York, showing condition of improvements in charge of Major H.M. Adams, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A., June 30, 1896. Brooklyn Historical Society Map Collection. Bay Ridge and Red Hook Channels, Buttermilk Channel, Gowanus Canal and Gowanus Creek Channel, New York, showing condition of improvements in charge of Major H.M. Adams, Corps of Engineers, U.S.A., June 30, 1896. Brooklyn Historical Society Map Collection.

(View this map as a PDF file to show more detail)

Interested in seeing more maps? You can view the BHS map collection anytime during the library's open hours, Wed.-Fri., from 1-5 p.m. No appointment is necessary to view most maps. Our cataloged maps can be searched through BobCat and our map inventories through Emma.

Map of the Month is part of a project to catalog our map holdings, funded through the Council on Library and Information Resources Hidden Collections program. If you would like to help us do more of this kind of work with our exciting map holdings, donate here.

 

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