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J. H. Colton: Travellers Map of Long Island.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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J. H. Colton  (1800–1893)  wikidata:Q6105865
 
J. H. Colton
Alternative names
Joseph Hutchins Colton
Description American cartographer and geographer
Date of birth/death 5 July 1800 Edit this at Wikidata 29 July 1893 / 19 July 1893 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Longmeadow New York City
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artist QS:P170,Q6105865
Title
Travellers Map of Long Island.
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English: This is the exceedingly rare 1857 issue of Colton’s folding map of Long Island. Depicts Long Island in full inclusive of Manhattan and the southern shore of Connecticut. Details the counties in red, green, yellow and blue pastels. Shows the progress of the Long Island Railroad system as well as all important towns, bays, lighthouses, roads, and harbors. This popular map, created in response to general interested in the settlement of long island prompted by the development of the LIRR, was originally drawn in 1855 and was published by the Colton firm until approximately 1870. Dated and copyrighted, “Entered according the Act of Congress in the Year 1855 by J. H. Colton & Co. in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Date 1857 (dated)
Dimensions height: 9 in (22.8 cm); width: 21.5 in (54.6 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,9U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,21.5U218593
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