Guide Map of the Borough of Brooklyn, King’s County, New York.
24 x 20 inches, Color lithograph; backed with rice paper, else excellent overall. Attractive example of a very detailed map, showing ferry routes and all the mass transportation available at the time: railroads, elevated trains and cable cars, trolleys and horse roads. Asphalt and macadam roads are distinguished as well. It was the first map to show Brooklyn as a borough, following the city’s annexation by New York. Though the vote to merge was passed in 1894, it went into effect in 1898 – the year this map was published. The map was issued by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, which can be interpreted either as irony or grace in defeat: The Eagle had opposed New York’s absorption of its neighbor in the 1894 vote.
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