Research Catalog

Title

[Parts of Manhattan in historical maps and pictures] / information by Robert McMurray.

Author

McMurray, Robert.

Publication

[Staten Island, N.Y.] : R. McMurray, 1993-

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

maps, pictures : photocopies, some col., some laminated; on sheets 71 x 65 cm. or smaller.

Alternative Title

Historical information maps of different sections of Manhattan

Subject

• Central business districts > New York (State) > New York > History > Maps
• Theaters > New York (State) > New York > History > Maps
• Stores, Retail > New York (State) > New York > History > Maps
• Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > History > Maps
• Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Pictorial works
• Union Square (New York, N.Y.) > Pictorial works
• Broadway (New York, N.Y.) > History > Maps
• Forty-second Street (New York, N.Y.) > Pictorial works
• Times Square (New York, N.Y.) > Pictorial works
• Times Square (New York, N.Y.) > History > Maps
• Herald Square (New York, N.Y.) > History > Maps
• Fifth Avenue (New York, N.Y.) > History > Maps
• Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) > History > Maps
• Chatham Square (New York, N.Y.) > History > Maps
• East Village (New York, N.Y.) > History > Maps
• Union Square (New York, N.Y.) > History > Maps
• Bowery (New York, N.Y. : Street) > History > Maps

Note

• Collective title devised by cataloger.
• Xerographic copies.
• Accompanied by contents list of 2nd series dated 10-19-2005 (1 sheet ; 40 x 28 cm.) and "The mapman cometh" / [by] Michael Fressola [article about mapmaker Robert McMurray copied from Staten Island Sunday advance, May 23, 2004] (1 sheet : ill. (some col.) ; 28 x 44 cm.).
• Includes historical notes and text.

Contents

• Contents of [1st series]: [1] Present Union Square area ca. 1820 [picture] -- [2] City Hall area ca. 1850 [map] -- [2] revised -- [3] Five Points area of N.Y.C. c. 1850 [map] -- [3] revised, Chatham Sq. & Five Points area of N.Y.C. c. 1850 [enlarged, laminated ed., and regular 28 x 44 cm ed.] -- [3.a] Part of the Chatham Square area ca. 1850 [map] -- [4] When Broadway area bet. Canal St. and W. 3rd St. was the fashionable entertainment and shopping district of N.Y.C. (10 zenith years: c. 1860-1870) [map] -- [4] revised -- [4.a] The stores, theatres, and hotels, etc. in the "Ladies Mile" shopping district (beginning c. 1870; ending c. 1914 ... ) [map] -- [4.b] Part of the Bowery area in 1880's [map] -- [5] 42nd St. (s. side) bet. 7th and 8th Aves. ca. 1928 [picture] -- [6] Times Square, 1953 (looking north from 45th St.) [picture] -- [6.a] The heart of New York's theatre district and Times Square (plus the Herald Square + 5th Ave. shopping district) ca. 1960 [map] -- [6.a] revised -- [7] 42nd St. ca. 1985 (looking e. to n. side of street from near 8th Ave.) [picture] -- [8] Map of part of Manhattan from a little s. of Grand St. to present 26th St. and E. River to Hudson River showing the estates and important roads thereof from c. 1760-1810.
• Contents of [2nd series]: I.1. Map from Battery to about present Worth St. (Lower Manhattan) in 1695-c. 1700, [also titled] N.Y.C. and outlying area (Lower Manhattan) in 1695-c. 1700 -- I.2. Map from present Worth St. to present 26th St. (mainly Lower East Side to Lower West Side) in c. 1720-1810 -- I.3. Map from present 20th to 51st Sts. (Midtown) in c. 1720-1810 -- II.1. Union Sq. (or Pl.) in c. 1820 -- II.2. Union Sq. in 1849 -- III. Map of City Hall area c. 1850 [dup. of [2]] -- IV. Map of 5 Points area c. 1850 [[3] rev.] -- V. Map of part of Bowery area (East Village) c. 1880s -- VI. Map with historical notes of places in Times Sq./Herald Sq. area from 19th century to the present (2005) but especially about c. 1960 era [[6.a] rev.].
• Contents of [3rd series]: N.Y.C. and outlying area (Lower Manhattan) in 1695-c. 1700 (the last years of the wall on Wall St.) -- History information map of Chatham Square area focusing on c. 1825-c. 1850 ... -- History information map of N.Y.C.'s East Village/Union Sq. area focusing on 1880's ... to 2008 -- History information map of N.Y.C.'s East Village/Union Sq. area focusing on 1880's ... [with] some 2017 updates ...

Call Number

Map Div. 98-807

OCLC

41384538

Author

McMurray, Robert.

Title

[Parts of Manhattan in historical maps and pictures] / information by Robert McMurray.

Imprint

[Staten Island, N.Y.] : R. McMurray, 1993-

Cartographic Data

Scales not given.

Local Note

NYPL copy of 1st series no. [3] noted missing, 9/26/2016; replaced by gift of author with revised ed. of no. [3], Chatham Sq. & Five Points area of N.Y.C. c. 1850.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 98-807 [Filed with N.Y.C. historical maps]