1770 Ratzer map of New York before and after conservation
Listen to historian Barnet Schecter, author of The Battle for New York: The City at the Heart of the American Revolution, and conservator Jon Derow discuss the historical importance of this rare and recently conserved map of New York City made by Bernard Ratzer in the late 1760s.
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You can read more about the Ratzer map in this recent article in The New York Times (1/16/2011).
Image by Kirsten Luce for The New York Times
And here’s more from BHS Map Cataloguer Carolyn Hanson (Brooklyn Heights Blog):
[...] very rare maps of New York from 1770 to high concept map blogs, we just can’t get enough cartography in our lives. But [...]
[...] The recently restored Ratzer Map, recently profiled in the New York Times is currently on display at the Brooklyn Historical Society. To find out more about the map, or information about visiting the Brooklyn Historical Society, click here. [...]