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- Robert Erskine-Simeon DeWitt maps, 1778-1783
- This series of field sketches and finished maps of projected battle sites in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary war was begun by Robert Erskine, geographer and surveyor-general to the Continental Army, and completed by his successor, Simeon De Witt. Robert Erskine (1735-1780) was appointed Geographer to Washington’s army in 1777. He surveyed both sides of the Hudson River and a large area covering the adjoining states. Many of the maps are rough field sketches, from which more detailed maps were later drawn. Simeon DeWitt (1756-1834) succeeded Erskine as Geographer-in-Chief in 1780, and oversaw surveys of the roads heading south through Maryland and Virginia to Williamsburg and Yorktown, aiding in Washington’s decisive victory at Yorktown. The Erskine-De Witt series culminates with the detailed Winter-Cantonment of the American Army and it's [sic] Vicinity for 1783, which shows the final encampment of the Continental forces at New Windsor, New York, during the winter of 1782-1783., New-York Historical Society
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- Charity Organization Society of the City of New York, Tenement House Committee Strong-holds of poverty and Prevalence of disease maps, 1899
- These 89 maps, hand-drawn and hand-colored, were created in 1899 under the leadership of Lawrence Veiller in conjunction with the Charity Organization Society of New York for display at the Tenement House Exhibition, held in Manhattan in February 1900. They depict neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, from the Battery to Harlem, in two series: “Strong-holds of poverty” and “Prevalence of disease.” Colored dots on the first series indicate the number of families requesting charitable assistance. On the second series, the dots represent instances of tuberculosis, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, and diphtheria. On both series, the population of each block is stamped at its center. The maps were donated to the New-York Historical Society by Lawrence Veiller in 1920.
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- Revolutionary Era Maps
- These highlights from the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library’s extensive map collection illuminate the tremendous geographic, political, and economic changes that transformed thirteen distinct colonies in North America into a new nation. Included are maps produced by Francis Maerschalck and Bernard Ratzer before the Revolutionary war; surveys by George Washington’s cartographers, Robert Erskine and Simeon DeWitt, and other maps that document military situations during the war; and maps instrumental in identifying and celebrating the new nation, like John Jay’s red-lined copy of the John Mitchell map used during the negotiations of the Treaty of Paris, 1782–1783.
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- J.G. Swift's Report on the Defence of the City of New-York, Accompanied With Maps, Views, and Topographical Plans, 1814
- "A collection of thirty-three maps, plans, and views of the fortifications constructed on Manhattan Island during the War of 1812 originally bound up with a beautifully engrossed Report on the Defence of the City of New-York ... Addressed to the Committee of the Common Council by J.G. Swift, Brigadier General, Chief Engineer of the United States, New York, 1814 ... According to a statement at the end of the report, the 'Surveys, Maps & Small views were furnished by Capt. James Renwick & Lieut. James Gadsden; aided by Lieuts. Craig, Turner, De Russy, Kemble & Oothout. Mr. Holland furnished the large Views ...'"--Stokes, I.N.P. Iconography of Manhattan Island, III, p. 551-552. The volume was disbound at some point in its history, and the views, maps, and plans divided between the New-York Historical Society's Museum and Library.
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- Buckingham Smith's Map of the coast of Florida from St. Augustine to the St. Lucie River, 1605 [between 1854 and 1858]
- Copy of a 1605 map depicting the coast of Florida from St. Augustine to the St. Lucie River, removed from a bound volume in the Buckingham Smith papers at the New-York Historical Society. The volume includes transcriptions of 17th-18th century documents made between 1854 and 1858, probably from originals at the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid, Spain, and also includes hand-drawn maps and correspondence to Smith. The map is listed in the handwritten list of contents as "Rutier of Mexia from St. Augustine to Ays, 1605".
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- John Randel's Cadastral map of Manhattan, approximately 1815
- This cadastral map of Manhattan in 26 sections on 13 sheets appears to be a draft of another map printed in Sackersdorff, Otto. Maps of farms, commonly called the Blue Book 1815 (New York: 1868). The map shows property lines and owners’ names, some existing roads and projected streets, and shows relief by hachures. Pen-and-ink, watercolor on paper. Sackersdorff gives the date of the manuscript map as circa 1815. Attributed to Randel by the cataloger; for provenance, see Stokes, I.N.P. Iconography of Manhattan Island, v. 3, p. 565.