Map of the City of New Haven and Vicinity
SurveyorSurveyed by
Hartley and Whiteford
(American, active 1851)
PrinterPrinted by
Rosenthal & Kraemer
(American, active 1851)
PublisherPublished by
Collins & Clark
(American, active 1850 - 1851)
PublisherCopyrighted by
Richard Clark
(American)
Date1851
MediumLithography; black printer's ink and watercolor on wove paper mounted on fabric
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (height x width): 44 x 41in. (111.8 x 104.1cm)
Sheet (height x width): 46 x 42in. (116.8 x 106.7cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineConnecticut Museum of Culture and History collection
Object number2012.312.286
DescriptionMap of New Haven, Connecticut, with West Rock, Westville, and the town of Hamden to the north, North Haven, Fair Haven, and East Haven to the east, New Haven Harbor to the south, and Orange to the west. The West River, the Mill River, and the Quinnipiac River are colored blue. Cemeteries are colored green. Small trees appear to indicate the location of wooded areas. Clumps of grass indicate the presence of extensive salt marshes. Elevation is depicted graphically as lines of ridges, with hachure marks. Within the center of New Haven, streets are named and the names of some property owners are indicated. Outside the center of New Haven, most roads are unnamed but the names of most property owners are indicated. Railroads include the New York and New Haven Railroad, the New Haven and New London Railroad, the New Haven and Northampton Railroad, and the New Haven, Hartford, and Springfield Railroad. A sailing ship is shown in the harbor between Long Wharf and the steamboat wharf. Vignettes at upper and lower right include a view of New Haven from the southeast, the Public Square (Green), Yale College, Yale College Library, Pavilion House, the New Haven Hotel, and a reduced reproduction of Wadsworth's 1748 Plan of the City of New Haven.
Label TextThis impressive large map of New Haven, Connecticut, one of the earliest of the large city and town maps published in Philadelphia by Richard Clark during the 1850s, manages to convey a remarkable amount of information. Turnpikes and roads radiate from the city center with its grid plan and central green. Railroads radiate from the docks at Long Wharf. Two small sailing vessels, an anachronistic touch in a map of this date, enhance the sense of New Haven as bustling transportation hub. Traprock ridges and marshes are graphically portrayed, giving a good idea of the surrounding landscape. The surrounding vignettes also stress the beauty of the city with its dramatic landscape setting and its elm-lined streets and squares. The inclusion of a small reproduction of General James Wadsworth's plan showing New Haven in 1748 suggests that the nineteenth century mapmakers had a sense of history and wanted to show how the city had grown in just over one hundred years.
NotesCartographic Note: One inch equals six hundred feetStatus
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