Map of the Murray Hill Farm, Ogden Place Farm, Lawrence & Astor, Wiswell & Price, Corporation Wm. Wright, John Taylor and other property.

Farms--New York (State)--New York--Maps.

Thirty-fourth Street (New York, N.Y.)--Maps.

Murray Hill Historic District (New York, N.Y.)--History--19th century--Maps.

Midtown Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--History--19th century--Maps.

A map showing the Midtown Manhattan area in 1867, well before commerce transformed it into skyscrapers and department stores. The farms are being divided into individual allotments to create housing and businesses.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

J. B. Holmes, Civil Engineer and City Surveyor, 47 Exchange Place, New York, January 1867.

1867

Unknown

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Maps

Murray Hill area, between 33rd through 35 Streets and between Broadway and Lexington Avenue

The Oldest House Foot of Murray Hill. Cor. 3d Av. & 34th St.

Murray Hill Historic District (New York, N.Y.)

Storefronts--New York (State)--New York.

Street vendors--New York (State)--New York.

Image taken from a book of a three-story, corner structure which appears to have retail and residential uses. A smaller store front next-door indicates the merchant sells coal. There is a vendor stand on the corner, a mother and child crossing the street and an unhitched wagon down the street.

Seymour B. Durst Old York Library.

City University of New York. Graduate School and University Center, Mina Rees Library.

L. Bayard Smith, comp., Old New York: From its Earliest History to About the Year 1868. Volume II, (New York, 1898)

1898

Illustrations by L. Bayard Smith

Copyright Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University.

Prints

Corner of Third Avenue and 34th Street