The City of Brooklyn – Antique Map Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
The City of Brooklyn comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Since 2001, Snapshots of the Past has shipped historic prints to tens of thousands of customers around the world.
The City of Brooklyn
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This view of Brooklyn is a panoramic map, a type of bird's-eye city portrait that became popular in the 19th century, when artists drew streets, rooftops, and waterfronts from a high vantage point so viewers could take in a whole town at once. Brooklyn was then a separate city across the East River from Manhattan, growing fast with shipyards, ferries, and new residential blocks, and maps like this one were often sold to residents and civic boosters proud of the place. The reduced version keeps the layout of the original, so the street grid, the harbor, and the dense building lines remain easy to follow. Brooklyn did not join New York City until consolidation in 1898, so the map is also a snapshot of a city that was still its own municipality.
| Original scan | 5,568 × 3,896 px · prints to 19 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | NY-Brooklyn-1879-GC |
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