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Title: 34th Street from the East River to 6th Avenue.
Description: This map centers on 34th Street and shows what Midtown Manhattan's 21st Ward looked like in 1867. It features the East River lumber yards, the ferry to Hunters Point, the location of mansions, the railroad engine house (East of 4th Ave), and a number of churches.
Type: cartographic
Genre: Maps
Local Identifier: 34182

Title: Map of Midtown Manhattan, from 29th Street through 35th Street and from 6th Avenue to 9th Avenue.
Description: This map represents 34th Street and shows what Midtown Manhattan's 20th Ward looked like in 1867. Various businesses are visible: a granite mill, ironworks, a rice mill, a boiler shop, a stone yard, a coal company, railroad yards and the railroad depot (between 9th & 10th Avenues).
Type: cartographic
Genre: Maps
Local Identifier: 34183

Title: Map of the Murray Hill Farm, Ogden Place Farm, Lawrence & Astor, Wiswell & Price, Corporation Wm. Wright, John Taylor and other property.
Description: A map showing the Midtown Manhattan area in 1867, well before commerce transformed it into skyscrapers and department stores. The farms are being divided into individual allotments to create housing and businesses. Murray Hill area, between 33rd through 35 Streets and between Broadway and Lexington Avenue.
Type: cartographic
Genre: Maps
Local Identifier: 34181

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