New York in 1874 - New York City, Albany, Buffalo

This New York map comes from Asher & Adams' New Commercial, Topographical, and Statistical Atlas and Gazetteer of the United States, published in New York in 1874. New York City in this period was still reeling politically from the exposure of the Tweed Ring just three years earlier, when Boss Tweed's Tammany Hall machine was revealed to have looted the city treasury of tens of millions of dollars — a scandal that shook public trust even as the state's rail network, radiating out from the city, kept pulling immigrants, capital, and trade into what was by now unquestionably the country's financial and commercial capital. Franklin Type Foundry engraved and electrotyped the sheet, hand-colored with relief shown by hachures.

Lake Ontario anchors the state's northern edge on the map, with the borders of Pennsylvania and New Jersey bordering the south, reflecting New York's status as a Gilded Age hub of commerce and transportation second to none in the country.

A strong pick for a New York family, an Empire State transplant, or a collector of Gilded Age railroad atlases. Our 1838 Bradford-era sheet zooms in on New York City alone, at a much closer scale and decades before the scandals and skyscrapers of the Gilded Age. The print ships unframed and in multiple sizes.