A highly uncommon railroad map of Long Island, New York dating to 1882.  Depicts Long Island in full inclusive of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Long Island Sound, and the southern shore of Connecticut.   Color coded in red, green, yellow and blue pastels at the county level.  Shows the progress of the Long Island Railroad system as well as all important towns, bays, lighthouses, roads, and harbors.  We have been able to identify only one other example of this map in the collections of the Library of Congress.  Though the map is undated and has no clear assignation, Phillips attributes it to G.W. and C. B Colton. No doubt because it is clearly based on Colton’s 1855 “Traveller’s Map of Long Island” though conceivably Phillips and the Library of Congress had more information available regarding the map’s production than they published.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:J._H._Colton" class="extiw" title="w:en:J. H. Colton"><span title="United-States geographer and mapmaker">J. H. Colton</span></a>
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1882 (undated)
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