Historic Map : Harpers Weekly View or Map of New York City from a Balloon, 1871, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 16in is still rather vague

is still rather vague

This is a rare and unusual 1857 U

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Burr issued in 1835

Tribeca and Collect Pond Area

Historic Map : Harpers Weekly View or Map of New York City from a Balloon, 1871, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 16in is still rather vagueA spectacular 1871 view of Manhattan issued in the May 6th supplement edition of Harper's Weekly Magazine. To quote from the document itself: In studying this pictorial map the spectator is supposed to be stationed somewhere in mid air above Fort Hamilton, at the outlet of the [Verrazano] Narrows, from which convenient height he can cast his eye of all the century lying with a radius of eighteen miles of New York. In the center he will see the great