A thought is to go to the Library of Congress section of City and Town Digital Maps.  I just looked, and did see a couple old ones listed for Manhattan there.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/cityhome.html
Cindy

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>Can any subscriber give me a better citation to something I can reconstruct
>only in my memory?
>
>In the 1970's, when the NYC Municipal Reference Library was still high up in
>the Municipal Building, they had a sort of aerial-photograph landmap of
>Manhattan (or was it all of New York City)?   It was oblong-bound in green
>corduroy, with photographic plates of straight-down aerial views of the city,
>about 1" = 200' - roughly the same as the more recent Bromley/Sanborn series
>of maps of the city.   I have never seen another one.
>
>I'm looking for one for Queens now, and can't reconstruct the citation (and
>thus publisher and coverage) of the one I remember.
>
>Is any other subscriber familiar with a similar series of photographic maps?
>
>Christopher Gray
>Office for Metropolitan History
>246 West 80th Street, #8, NYC  10024
>212-799-0520  fax -0542
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Cindy Amrhein
Town of Alabama Historian
in Genesee Co., NY
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