Map Scam?
Here at BHS, my job is to catalog maps. We have a wonderful collection of Brooklyn maps from the 1700s to the present; however, when I first started looking at the collection, I noticed that some of the maps were very similar to each other. So similar, in fact, that if you were just casually glancing at them, you'd think they were duplicates. In particular, I became interested in a group of maps of Brooklyn published by A. Brown in the 1860s and 1870s; 3 maps, with virtually identical content...what was going on? Turns out, producing maps in the 1800s was very expensive, and map publishers…