Keywords: 1866 Mitchell Map of New York City and Brooklyn - Geographicus - NewYorkCity-mitchell-1866.jpg A beautiful example of S A Mitchell Junior ™s 1866 map of New York City New York Depicts New York City along with parts of Brooklyn Williamsburg Greenpoint Hoboken and Jersey City Offers wonderful detail at the street level including references to parks individual streets trains piers ferries and important buildings Colored coded with pastels according to city wards Surrounded by the attractive floral border common to Mitchell atlases between 1860 and 1866 One of the more attractive atlas maps of New York to appear in the mid 19th century Prepared by S A Mitchell Jr for inclusion as plate 19 in the 1866 issue of Mitchell ™s New General Atlas Like many American map publishers of this period Mitchell did not regularly update his copyright consequently this map is dated and copyrighted to 1860 Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1860 by S Augustus Mitchell Jr in the Clerk ™s Office of the District Court of the U S for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1866 dated 1860 Size in 11 13 5 object history credit line accession number NewYorkCity-mitchell-1866 Mitchell S A <i>Mitchell's New General Atlas Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World Plans of Cities Etc embraced in Fifty-Five Quarto Maps Forming a series of Eight-Seven Maps and Plans together with Valuable Statistical Tables</i> 1866 edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Samuel Augustus Mitchell Old maps of Manhattan New York City 1866 maps Manhattan Old maps of Brooklyn New York City Old maps showing the West Side Line |