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New York City and the Statue of Liberty
Nice example of Colton's rare panoramic bird's-eye view of New York City.
The map shows the city from the southwest, covering Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens as seen from high above Jersey City and Hoboken. The view extends from the Bronx to the Statue of Liberty and from Hoboken to Brooklyn and Governor's Island.
The view shows the Brooklyn Bridge (completed in 1883), the Williamsburg Bridge (then under construction), the Queensboro Bridge (still only proposed), and a bridge that was proposed, but never built across the Hudson to Hoboken at 59th Street.
Rarity
The view is very rare. We find no record of the view in Stokes or OCLC. We locate no auction records for the view.
G. W. & C. B. Colton was a prominent family firm of mapmakers who were leaders in the American map trade in the nineteenth century. The business was founded by Joseph Hutchins Colton (1800-1893) who bought copyrights to existing maps and oversaw their production. By the 1850s, their output had expanded to include original maps, guidebooks, atlases, and railroad maps. Joseph was succeeded by his sons, George Woolworth (1827-1901) and Charles B. Colton (1831-1916). The firm was renamed G. W. & C. B. Colton as a result. George is thought responsible for their best-known work, the General Atlas, originally published under that title in 1857. In 1898, the brothers merged their business and the firm became Colton, Ohman, & Co., which operated until 1901, when August R. Ohman took on the business alone and dropped the Colton name.
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