Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609 – 2009
by emily on Aug.02, 2009, under All, Art, Technology
This September the New York Public Library is celebrating the New York Harbor Quadricentennial (400 years!) with an exhibit of rarely seen maps, atlases, and cartographical delights of all kinds. Including an animated overlay of the shoreline in Google Earth. The exhibit Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009 opens September 25th.
Where: D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall (First Floor)
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 5th Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
“September 2009 marks 400 years since Henry Hudson sailed into New York Harbor and up the Hudson River, almost to what is now Albany, performing detailed reconnaissance of the Hudson Valley region. Other explorers passed by the outwardly hidden harbor, but did not linger long enough to fully realize the commercial, nautical, strategic, or colonial value of the region. Once the explorers returned to Europe, their strategic information was passed on to authorities. Some data was kept secret, but much was handed over to map makers, engraved on copper, printed on handmade paper, distributed to individuals and coffee-houses (the news centers of the day), and pored over by dreamers, investors, and potential settlers in the “new land.””
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- Plan of the City of New York. Engraved map by Thomas H. Poppleton, 1817. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division. (Courtesy of The New York Public Library)
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- Industrial Map of New York City Showing Manufacturing Industries. Chromolithograph, 1922. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division (Courtesy of The New York Public Library)
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![Part of Hudson’s River [and] A Plan of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton.. Engraved map by J.F.W. Des Barres, 1772. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division (Courtesy of The New York Public Library)](http://emilyconrad.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/2nycnyplmap-150x150.jpg "3nycnyplmap")
- Part of Hudson’s River [and] A Plan of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton.. Engraved map by J.F.W. Des Barres, 1772. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division (Courtesy of The New York Public Library)
![Part of Hudson’s River [and] A Plan of Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton.. Engraved map by J.F.W. Des Barres, 1772. The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division (Courtesy of The New York Public Library)](http://emilyconrad.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/2nycnyplmap.jpg "3nycnyplmap")
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- New York and Environs, from Williamsburgh. Chromolithograph with hand coloring by E.W. Foreman and E. Brown, Jr., 1848. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Print Collection, Eno Collection of New York City Views (Courtesy of The New York Public Library)
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- Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova. Copper engraved, hand colored map by Willem Janszoon Blaeu. Amsterdam, 1635. NYPL, The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division (Courtesy of The New York Public Library)
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- A Plan of the City of New-York & Its Environs…. Etched map with hand coloring by John Montresor, London, 1775. NYPL, The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection. (Courtesy of The New York Public Library)
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- New Sea Map of the Spanish Sea. Engraved map by Gerard van Keulen, Amsterdam, ca. 1720. NYPL, The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division (Courtesy of The New York Public Library)
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