{"id":1787217,"date":"2019-04-02T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T21:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787217"},"modified":"2019-04-02T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T21:57:15","slug":"an-exhibition-of-historic-maps-of-new-york-city-new-amsterdam-to-metropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/04\/an-exhibition-of-historic-maps-of-new-york-city-new-amsterdam-to-metropolis\/","title":{"rendered":"An Exhibition of Historic Maps of New York City: New Amsterdam to Metropolis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Untapped Cities<\/em> has photos<\/a> from an exhibition of historic and antique maps of New York City at the gallery of Manhattan rare book dealer Martayan Lan. New Amsterdam to Metropolis: Historic Maps of New York City<\/strong><\/em><\/a> features maps of the city dating back to the 16th century. It opened last November and runs until the end of May 2019. Some (but not all) of the maps, the New York Times<\/em> notes<\/a>, are for sale, which is what happens when it’s a rare book dealer rather than a museum or library doing the exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Untapped Cities has photos from an exhibition of historic and antique maps of New York City at the gallery of Manhattan rare book dealer Martayan Lan. New Amsterdam to Metropolis: Historic Maps of New York… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[54,50,194],"class_list":["post-1787217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-cities","tag-exhibitions","tag-new-york-city","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1462,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/04\/original-salt-lake-plat-map-found\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787217,"position":0},"title":"Original Salt Lake Plat Map Found","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"8 April 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"\"A New York dealer in antique maps and rare books claims to have found the first map of Salt Lake City,\" writes Trent Toone of the\u00a0Deseret News. \"Paul Cohen, of\u00a0Cohen and Taliaferro, recently obtained the original sheepskin plat map of the 'Great City of the Valley of the Great Salt\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3072,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/10\/nonstop-metropolis-a-new-york-city-atlas\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787217,"position":1},"title":"Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"17 October 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Another book coming out this month:\u00a0Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit and Joshua Jelly-Shapiro (University of California\u00a0Press, 19 October). 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