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J. H. Colton: Map of Long Island Showing the Long Isladn Railroad and its Leased Lines.   (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
Map of Long Island Showing the Long Isladn Railroad and its Leased Lines.
Description
English: A highly uncommon railroad map of Long Island, New York dating to 1882. Depicts Long Island in full inclusive of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Long Island Sound, and the southern shore of Connecticut. Color coded in red, green, yellow and blue pastels at the county level. Shows the progress of the Long Island Railroad system as well as all important towns, bays, lighthouses, roads, and harbors. We have been able to identify only one other example of this map in the collections of the Library of Congress. Though the map is undated and has no clear assignation, Phillips attributes it to G.W. and C. B Colton. No doubt because it is clearly based on Colton’s 1855 “Traveller’s Map of Long Island” though conceivably Phillips and the Library of Congress had more information available regarding the map’s production than they published.
Date 1882 (undated)
Dimensions height: 8 in (20.3 cm); width: 21 in (53.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,8U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,21U218593
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