About This Item

  • Call NumberMAP_1885-01-01
  • TitleEast River Front of New York and Brooklyn.
  • SummaryEast River waterfront of New York and Brooklyn from the Battery and Red Hook to Blackwells Island. Includes piers, bridges, canals, docks, ferries, churches & Governor's Island, as well as nautical landmarks inland such as spires and flagpoles. Surveyed [and topography] by E. Hergesheimer ... issued by F.M. Thorn. Julius Bien & Co., photo-lithography.
  • Date1885
  • Formatcartographicstill image
  • Physical Description1 map : black & white ; 44 x 28 in.
  • Genremaps (documents)nautical charts
  • CreatorHergesheimer, E.; Thorn, F.M.
  • PublisherU.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
  • SubjectBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Maps ; Waterfronts--New York (State)--New York
  • CollectionBrooklyn Maps collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)East River (N.Y.)Governors Island Historic District (New York County, N.Y.)
  • Cite AsBrooklyn Maps collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • 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.