About This Item
- Call NumberMAP_1871-02-01
- TitleNew York, From a Balloon.
- 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.)
- 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.