Topographical map of Union County, New Jersey /
Summary
General-content map showing built-up areas, urban buildings, rural buildings with occupants' names, extant/planned streets, woods, orchards, and marshes.
Relief shown by hachures.
Hand colored (watercolors) to emphasize township boundaries and territories.
"Orders for maps to be addressed to Ernest L. Meyer, City Surveyor, Elizabeth, N.J., or B. Westermann & Co., 440 Broadway, N.Y."
"Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by Ernest L. Meyer & P. Witzel in the ... Southern District of New York."
Originally printed on 2 or 4 sheets (as wall map?) which may or may not correspond with the present fold lines.
LC copy imperfect: Brittle, darkened, mounted on cloth backing, quartered to enable folding, missing small internal sections along fold lines, missing long strips of part of the illustrations along the lower and right-hand edges.
LC Land ownership maps, 467
Includes notes, statistical tables, embellished border containing illustrations of prominent buildings (identified), 2 bar scales, and 2 landscape "Views sketched from nature by W.T. Crane".
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.