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The Viele Map of Manhattan

posted by Jason Kottke   Jun 12, 2006

The Viele Map of Manhattan was made in 1865 and shows the original boundaries and waterways of the city. Here's a thumbnail view (with prints for sale) and the David Rumsey Map Collection has a zoomable version that you can explore. (thx, meg)

Update: Took me forever this morning, but I cobbled together a high-res version of the Viele map from the PITA Java applet on the Rumsey site. Warning: the image is quite large (9859 x 3115, 8.6 Mb) so it might crash your browser if you attempt to look at it...better to save it to a local drive and open it up in an image viewer.

Update: Here's a simple zoomable/scrollable version (a la Google Maps) of the high-res image that I whipped up with Zoomify. Thanks to Aaron for the suggestion.