About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn.
+ o - ^
previous next

Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn.

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division

  • Het nievwe licht der zeevaert
  • Atlas eclipticalis 1950.0
  • Map of Central America including the states of Guatemala, Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua & Costa Rica, the territories of Belise & Mosquito, with parts of Mexico, Yucatan & New Granada
  • A chart of Delaware Bay and River
  • Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio : quam ex magna universali Gerardi Mercatoris Domino Richardo Gartho, geographie ac ceterarum bonarum artium amatori ac fautori summo, in veteris amicitie ac familiaritatis memoriam Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat A0. M.D. LXXXVII.
  • Arabia.
  • Florida.
  • A map of the icy sea in which the several communications with the land waters and other new discoveries are exhibited
  • Zeichenerklärung
  • Septentrionalium Terrarum descriptio
  • America Septentrionalis.
  • A chart of the world : exhibiting the prevailing religion and population of the present empires, kingdoms and states : also the principal missionary stations throughout the globe, 1842.
  • Carta dell' Egitto, Sudan, Mar Rosso, Assab, Massaua, Abissinia ecc.
  • Map of lots & buildings as shewn by the dotted lines and figures to be sold at auction by James Bleecker & Sons
  • New York province. Map of the country of the VI nations proper with part of the adjacent colonies.
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Maps of New York City and State

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
New York City

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
Brooklyn

View as book

This Item

Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn.

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn.
Names
Douglass, David Bates, 1790-1849 (Surveyor)
Currier, Charles, 1818-1887 (Lithographer)
Collection

Maps of New York City and State

New York City

Brooklyn

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1847 (Questionable)
Place: Brooklyn? :
Publisher: City Corporation?,
Library locations
Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Shelf locator: Map Div. 01-1937 [Filed with Brooklyn]
Topics
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Maps
Canals -- New York (State) -- New York
Drainage -- New York (State) -- New York
Gowanus Canal (New York, N.Y.) -- Maps
Genres
Maps
Notes
Content: National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Access to Early Maps of the Middle Atlantic Seaboard.
Content: Probably published to accompany Major Douglass' report on the drainage and graduation of that part of the city of Brooklyn, which lies over, and adjacent to, the Gowanus Meadows 1847.
Physical Description
Extent: 2 maps ; 26 x 75 cm. and 25 x 53 cm.
Type of Resource
Cartographic
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 46942704
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15040601
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8720a9d0-c5aa-012f-81ce-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1790: Creator Born
  • 1847: Issued
  • 1849: Creator Died
  • 2015: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1847. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ee2c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. "Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 22, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ee2c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1847). Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn. Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ee2c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-ee2c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 | title= (cartographic) Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn., (1847) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=November 22, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Plan[s] of Majr. Douglas's report on the drainage of a part of the city of Brooklyn.