Item Information

Page of Christopher Colles' Road-Map, 1789, showing roads on Manhattan Island

Dublin Core

Title

Page of Christopher Colles' Road-Map, 1789, showing roads on Manhattan Island

Subject

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) --History --18th century.

Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) --Maps

Creator

Colles, Christopher, 1738-1816

Source

Stokes, I. N. Phelps. The iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York : Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928. Electronic reproduction. v. 5. New York, N.Y. : Columbia University Libraries, 2008.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/digital/collections/cul/texts/ldpd_5800727_005/pages/ldpd_5800727_005_00000215.html?toggle=image&menu=maximize&top=&left=

Language

English

Additional Item Metadata

Temporal Coverage

1789

Spatial Coverage

New York

Manhattan

Provenance

New York Public Library

Citation

Plate 51-b [no page number, within Chapter 4]

MODS

Type of Date

Questionable

Repository Name

No repository

Language of Cataloging

English

Digital Origin

Reformatted digital

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Drawing

Citation

Colles, Christopher, 1738-1816, “Page of Christopher Colles' Road-Map, 1789, showing roads on Manhattan Island,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed December 6, 2025, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/stokes/item/3915.