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| Keywords: 1882 Colton Railroad Map of Long Island, New York - Geographicus - LongIsland-colton-1882.jpg A highly uncommon railroad map of Long Island New York dating to 1882 Depicts Long Island in full inclusive of Manhattan Brooklyn the Long Island Sound and the southern shore of Connecticut Color coded in red green yellow and blue pastels at the county level Shows the progress of the Long Island Railroad system as well as all important towns bays lighthouses roads and harbors We have been able to identify only one other example of this map in the collections of the Library of Congress Though the map is undated and has no clear assignation Phillips attributes it to G W and C B Colton No doubt because it is clearly based on Colton ™s 1855 Traveller ™s Map of Long Island though conceivably Phillips and the Library of Congress had more information available regarding the map ™s production than they published 1882 undated Size in 21 8 object history credit line accession number LongIsland-colton-1882 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by Joseph Hutchins Colton Old maps of Long Island 1882 maps | ||||
