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New map of Kings and Queens counties, New York : from actual surveys.

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New map of Kings and Queens counties, New York : from actual surveys.

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General-content map of the present-day borough of Brooklyn (Kings County, New York City) and the entire pre-1899 area of Queens County.
Also covers Nassau County which was formed from the eastern part of Queens County in 1899.
Shows incorporated cities, towns (townships), numbered districts, roads, rural buildings, and rural householders' names; shows street systems in urban areas.
Shows 1-mile radial distances from N.Y. City Hall (Manhattan).
Relief shown by hachures.
Partially hand-colored.
"Copyrighted 1886 J.B. Beers & Co."
Mounted in western/eastern segments (sheets).
LC copy imperfect: The 4 original sheets were conjoined to form a single sheet, later halved, mounted on cloth backing, halved again to enable sheet folding, trimmed at outer edges, original sheets brittle.
LC Land ownership maps, 512
Includes text, index of local areas, business directory, 12 local-area insets (including Long Island City--now part of Queens Borough), advertisements, and illustrations in some advertisements.
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
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01/01/1886
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J.B. Beers & Co.
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Library of Congress
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Public Domain

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