Taylor Map of New York

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Inset of the title and the Brooklyn bridge

The Taylor Map is an engraved map of New York City, produced by Will L. Taylor for Galt & Hoy in 1879. [1] The map depicts the entire length of the island of Manhattan, although not to scale, and is surrounded by period advertisements and portraits of various businesses in New York and New Jersey. Original prints sold for $10 "on spring rollers", or $12.50 "in black walnut or gilt case with handsome cornice". [2] The original map was 188 by 107 centimetres (74 in × 42 in), printed on four 97 by 55 centimetres (38 in × 22 in) sheets. [1] [3] The Taylor Map was one of the first true attempts to label all roads and piers and to depict buildings using a vanishing perspective. [4]

New York City Largest city in the United States

The City of New York, usually called either New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2018 population of 8,398,748 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world's most populous megacities, with an estimated 19,979,477 people in its 2018 Metropolitan Statistical Area and 22,679,948 residents in its Combined Statistical Area. A global power city, New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, and exerts a significant impact upon commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports. The city's fast pace has inspired the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy.

Manhattan Borough in New York City and county in New York, United States

Manhattan, , is the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City, coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state of New York. Manhattan serves as the city's economic and administrative center, cultural identifier, and historical birthplace. The borough consists mostly of Manhattan Island, bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers; several small adjacent islands; and Marble Hill, a small neighborhood now on the U.S. mainland, physically connected to the Bronx and separated from the rest of Manhattan by the Harlem River. Manhattan Island is divided into three informally bounded components, each aligned with the borough's long axis: Lower, Midtown, and Upper Manhattan.

New Jersey U.S. state in the United States

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The F.O. Matthiessen & Wiechers Sugar refining Works Taylor Map - Matthiessen Wiechers Sugar Refining Works.jpg
The F.O. Matthiessen & Wiechers Sugar refining Works
The Brewsters of 25th Street Taylor Map - Brewsters of 25th Street.jpg
The Brewsters of 25th Street

At the bottom of the map is the Brooklyn Bridge, although the bridge was not yet completed at the time of the map's publication. [5] Included in the locations depicted are factories, such as the Matthiessen and Wiechers Sugar Refining Works shown on the right, businesses such as the Fifth Avenue Hotel and Brown & Pray Carriage Builders, and locations such as Manhattan Beach.

Brooklyn Bridge Hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge across the East River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York

The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City. It connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, spanning the East River. The Brooklyn Bridge has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m) and a height of 133 ft (40.5 m) above Mean High Water. It is one of the oldest roadway bridges in the United States and was the world's first steel-wire suspension bridge, as well as the first fixed crossing across the East River.

Fifth Avenue Hotel

The Fifth Avenue Hotel was a luxury hotel located at 200 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City from 1859 to 1908. It occupied the full Fifth Avenue frontage between 23rd Street and 24th Street, at the southwest corner of Madison Square.

Ads

The map is bordered by advertisements for "The Brewsters of 25th Street", "Dixon Crucible Co.", the "European Salicyclic Medicine Co", "E. Aug. Neresheimer, Importer of Diamonds", "Robert T Hoy - Banker & Broker" and "WM. Rogers, with Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co, manufacturers of the finest quality of silver electro plated ware".

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Scan of the 1879 map

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  2. Taylor Map - Sales price
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