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Selections from the David Rumsey Map Collection II
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Short Title:
Island of Manhattan from the Battery to 59th Street
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Island of Manhattan from the Battery to 59th Street
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86
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Note:
This is a very rare color pictorial map of Manhattan, New York. Extends from Battery to 59th St. Includes marvelous illustrations of pre-Depression manhattan. Date estimated. With numerous allegorical vignettes including: Vanderbilt Yacht / Dreaming of the 1928 Election; at the top right, there are portrait images of Al Smith (then Governor of New York) and James A. Reed (Senator from Missouri); Prohibition - the bottles in the water and "enforcement" vignette over the river at the top left; The Gilded Age - the delightful cornucopia vignettes locating the rich and not so rich; Zeppelin & Battle Ship, resembles the USS Los Angeles or the USS Shenandoah, battleship USS Texas; then subways, lines of the IRT, BMT, and elevated train system, churches, hotels, businesses, etc. Includes key at the lower right corner. Klitgaard was a Danish American author, painter, illustrator, educator, and master mariner (1888-1953). This appears to be his only pictorial map. There are many hidden themes and caricatures in this map to be discovered. Date is estimated based on the image of the USS Texas. She was modernized in 1925-26 (losing the cage-mast and one funnel) and then was based out of NYC in August 1927 (with thanks to Harry Newman for this information).
note
This is a very rare color pictorial map of Manhattan, New York. Extends from Battery to 59th St. Includes marvelous illustrations of pre-Depression manhattan. Date estimated. With numerous allegorical vignettes including: Vanderbilt Yacht / Dreaming of the 1928 Election; at the top right, there are portrait images of Al Smith (then Governor of New York) and James A. Reed (Senator from Missouri); Prohibition - the bottles in the water and "enforcement" vignette over the river at the top left; The Gilded Age - the delightful cornucopia vignettes locating the rich and not so rich; Zeppelin & Battle Ship, resembles the USS Los Angeles or the USS Shenandoah, battleship USS Texas; then subways, lines of the IRT, BMT, and elevated train system, churches, hotels, businesses, etc. Includes key at the lower right corner. Klitgaard was a Danish American author, painter, illustrator, educator, and master mariner (1888-1953). This appears to be his only pictorial map. There are many hidden themes and caricatures in this map to be discovered. Date is estimated based on the image of the USS Texas. She was modernized in 1925-26 (losing the cage-mast and one funnel) and then was based out of NYC in August 1927 (with thanks to Harry Newman for this information).
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Full Title:
Island of Manhattan from the Battery to 59th Street. Kaj Klitgaard.
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Island of Manhattan from the Battery to 59th Street. Kaj Klitgaard.
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11160
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11160
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Pub Date:
1927
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1927
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Pub Title:
Island of Manhattan from the Battery to 59th Street. Kaj Klitgaard.
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Island of Manhattan from the Battery to 59th Street. Kaj Klitgaard.
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See note field above.
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11160
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Publisher:
Kaj Klitgaard
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New york
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New York
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Date:
1927
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