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 [log in to unmask] wrote: >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 >e: [log in to unmask] > -- Cindy Amrhein Town of Alabama Historian in Genesee Co., NY Experience the Town of Alabama in Genesee County, NY. http://www2.pcom.net/cinjod/historian/ APHNYS (Association of Public Historians of New York State) http://www.tier.net/aphnys __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/