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Map of the city of New York and its vicinity from actual surveys
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Hiram Barney's political, business, legal, and family papers concern a wide variety of subjects including real estate, primarily in Iowa, and New York; court cases (often pertaining to debt collection) and other legal services; politics generally, but especially patronage distribution; family affairs, business transactions concerning the Erie and other canals; small railroads (largely in the Lake Plains region); Mexico and Mexican-American relations; the Civil War; U.S. Customs Service. Barney's correspondence contains numerous references to the anti-enslavement movement in the North, the Civil War, Republican Party politics, and Barney's friendship with Abraham Lincoln. Also found throughout this portion of the collection are transportation papers dealing with Barney's interest in connection with the opening up of waterways, the railroad, and the telegraph from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Among the correspondents are William C. Bryant, William A. Butler, Salmon P. Chase, Charles P. Clinch, Erastus Corning, Edward C. Delavan, William P. Fessenden, John Jay, David W. Kilbourne, Eugene Kozlay, Abraham Lincoln, Edward L. Pierce, Matias Romero, Horatio Seymour, William T. Sherman, Edward D. Smith, Breese J. Stevens, Lewis Tappan, William D. Waterman. Real estate papers concern mostly the Half-Breed Tract between the Mississippi and Des Moines rivers. Which includes signed documents of land indentures by specific Indigenous tribal members of the Sak and Fox (Meskwaki) Nation with papers pertaining to the first Anglo proprietors and settlers. Related to Barney's real estate documents are Francis Scott Key's papers. Legal papers extend from 1825 to 1888 and includes articles of partnership, court cases, powers of attorney, and notes for collection. New York Custom House papers cover the general operations, patronage, and personnel of the Custom House, as well as records of the fraud investigations conducted by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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Visual Materials
Kashnor notes, "Contains minor maps of a number of towns (listed) and views of prominent homes and churches (listed)." Submaps of 24 towns with directories. Vignettes of nineteen landmarks and references.. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1856 by Robert Pearsall Smith in the clerks office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, furlongs. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: VignettesSub-maps.
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Many submaps of small communities. Submaps: Cooperstown and 27 other towns. Vignettes: Cooperstown; Harvesting grapes. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles, rods. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Grafton A Fine Long Cloth.
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