Price: SOLD
SKU: 97833
PUBLISHER: Published by produced by the Arthur Crosby Service.
MEDIUM: Multi-color lithograph,
DATE: 1828.
EDITION SIZE: Image size 11 3/8 x 37 3/8" (29 x 94.8 cm).
DESCRIPTION: A fun advertising pictorial map of New York City. This map was produced by Arthur Crosby Service, an advertising agency specifically for the Chase National Bank. All the branches are shown on the map in red. A “Points of Interest” key identifies 90 churches, attractions, prominent businesses, universities, parks, theaters, institutions and commercial buildings. Also noted on the map are the locations of “Famous Fifth Avenue Residences” belonging to prominent citizens such as Warburg, Frick, Havemeyer, Gould, Whitney and Guggenheim. Streets and avenues are white with some being overprinted with solid and dashed light blue lines that likely show street car and elevated train routes. Some neighborhoods are also labeled in light blue lettering including Ghetto in the lower east side of Manhattan. Roosevelt Island is simply named, Welfare Island. There are also ships in the rivers and harbors, including the ocean liner SS Leviathan, docked at pier 84 in the Hudson River. In the east village are a series of black printed figures that include a witch on a broomstick, a horse, pig, mouse, cat, coffee pot, owl, etc. One writer has deduced that these were likely speakeasies as the map was produced during Prohibition. An enjoyable map to study.
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CONDITION: Good condition and color save for some repaired splitting along folds
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