Description
Link, William F. The Hudson River Map from New York Bay to the Head of the Tide Water Containing Names of Streams, Islands and Heights of Mountains According to the latest Coast Survey, Also the Names of Prominent Residences, Historic Land Marks, the Reaches of the Hudson and Old Indian Names. Published by Wm. F. Link. New York Central and Hudson River R.R. Route. Copyrighted by Wm. F. Link. Price 25 Cts. [1886]
Bound with The Hudson River Map Via the New York Central & Hudson R. R. What the Traveler Wishes to See and Know. New York: Published by Bryant Literary Union, Evening Post Building. [n.d.] 8 pages, numbered on the recto only, a circular vignette on the title page, with eight woodcut illustrations on the verso of each page. Page two is a list of stations and distances from New York to Albany and from Albany to Buffalo.
A strip map, in hand-colored lithography, 272 cm x 14.5 cm, bound in a thick brown paper wrapper with an oval vignette of the Hudson River showing river steamers, sailboats and a train running along the shore, with the abbreviated title Map of the Hudson River. Via New York Central and Hudson River R. R. on the front cover. Each of the folded 24 sections has a woodcut advertisement for a hotel, spa or farm machinery on the verso. Two of the hotel advertisements date the map to 1886. The condition is generally very good, the hand-coloring still bright, with some slight insect damage on the edge of the bottom panel. A copy was found at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Not in Haskell.
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