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Portion of Chart of Sandy Hook Bar showing New York Bay to west of Sandy Hook.
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Portion of Chart of Sandy Hook Bar showing bottom configuration between SandyHook and Long Island.
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Portion of Chart of Sandy Hook Bar showing bottom configuration between SandyHook and Long Island.
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SW sheet of six-sheet chart of New York Bay and Harbor. Title sheet. Thischart was the culmination of Ferdinand Hassler's superintendence. Unfortunately it was published posthumously. It established the style for Coast Survey andCoast and Geodeti
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Title block of Sheet No. 1 which includes sailing directions, tidalinformation, light characteristics, and establishment of New York City Hall asZero Longitude for this chart. Two remarkable views of Sandy Hook Light are also included.
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Telescopic view of Sandy Hook Light S.W. on edge of ship channel as seen in1839. Note glass panes.
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SE sheet of six sheets of New York Bay and Harbor. This sheet shows approachesto New York Harbor from the south. It also includes an innovative tidal current chart from observations made by Lt. Comd. Charles H. Davis in 1844. Note alsobottom charac
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Section of SE sheet of six sheets of New York Bay and Harbor showing FalseHook Channel, the primary means of approaching New York Harbor prior to theCoast Survey work of 1835.
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Note on SE sheet of six sheets of New York Bay and Harbor designating thatlongitudes on the chart are referred to the Meridian of New York City Hall.
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Section of SE sheet of six sheets of New York Bay and Harbor showing currenttable and scales of both statute miles and a scale of yards. The bottom-mostscale divides minutes of longitude into ten-second intervals. Although theminutes of latitude ar
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Sheet No. 3, the west center sheet of six of New York Bay and Harbor includingStaten Island, the Narrows (Verrazano Narrows today), and the western part ofchannels leading over Sandy Hook Bar.
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Blowup of area in vicinity of channels over Sandy Hook Bar showing selectedsoundings, various banks and bars, white and black buoys, directions of currents, stippling for sand and mud, and bottom characteristics.
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Sheet No. 4, the east center sheet of six of New York Bay and Harbor includingGedney's Channel, the newly discovered channel into New York Harbor, ConeyIsland, and Rockaway Beach.
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Sheet No. 4, blowup of Gedney's Channel area and other channels.
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Sheet No. 5, the NW sheet of six sheets of New York Bay and Harbor. This sheetincludes the Hudson River north of The Narrows, lower Manhattan, Jersey City,Governors Island, Ellis Island, and Bedloe's Island.
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Sheet no. 6, the NE sheet of six sheets of New York Bay and Harbor. This sheetincludes eastern Manhattan, the East River, Brooklyn, Jamaica Bay, andwestern Long Island. The topographic detail on this sheet is amazing.
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Petaluma and Napa Creeks 1861. Re-issued 1882 with Aids to Navigationcorrected to 1885.
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A park designed by Henry Whiting perhaps as an example oftopographical drawing.
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Copy of sketch map by Captain J. L. Folsom of the U.S. Topographical Engineersof the vicinity of the Golden Gate and present day San Francisco. John RossKey, a nephew of Francis Scott Key and a draftsman in the Coast Survey, copiedthe map for the a
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Field map of line of soundings offshore from Cape Henlopen, Delaware Bay.In the far SE corner, the break in soundings from 85 fathoms to 145 fathoms isone of the earliest indications of the continental shelf break.
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