Giacomo di Gastaldi [New France], 1556.
Detail showing Long Island as "Flora."
(John Carter Brown Library
at Brown University.)
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William Janzoon Blaeu, New Belgium
and New England , 1635.
Detail showing Long Island and Natives
in canoes.
(SUNY Stony Brook.)
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Anonymous, Manhattan on the North River,
1639.
Detail showing Dutch settlements on Manhattan
and Native longhouse in Brooklyn.
(Library of Congress, Geography
and Map Division.)
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Nicholaes Visscher, New Belgium and
New England, 1656
Detail from a facsimile showing Long Island.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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Arendt Roggeveen, Map of New Netherland,
1675.
Detail showing Long Island.
(Library of Congress, Geography
and Map Division.)
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John Seller, A Chart of the Sea Coasts
of New-England, New Jarsey, Virginia, Maryland and Carolina--from C. Cod
to C.Hatteras, 1675.
Early English map influenced by Dutch
maps and by John Scott map.
(New York State Library.)
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Robert Ryder, Long Island Sirvaide
by Robartte Ryder, [1674].
First map of Long Island based on an actual
survey.
(John Carter Brown Library
at Brown University.)
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Philip Welles, [Draught of a Tract of
Land on the East Side of Cow Neck on Long Island], 1683.
Map of Hempstead Harbor showing property
boundaries and possible Native wigwams.
(New York State Archives.)
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John Thornton, Part of New England,
New York, East New Iarsey, and Long Island, 1689.
Famous nautical chart based in part on
the Ryder map.
(Original Possessed by John
Carter Brown Library at Brown University.)
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Robert Morden, A Map of ye English
Empire in the Continent of America, 1690.
Detail showing whaling off the coast of
Long Island.
(Original Possessed by the
New York Public Lbrary.)
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Johann Baptista Homann, New England
in North America, 1710.
Detail showing Long Island; copied from
a variety of Dutch maps.
(Courtesy New York State
Library)
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Cyprian Southack, A Map of the Coast
of New England, [1730].
Detail showing an elongated Long Island.
(Original Possessed by Library
of Congress, Geography and Map Division)
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Jacques Nicolas Bellin, Map of New
England, 1757.
One of the many 18th-century British and
French maps showing influence of Southack.
(Original Possessed by John
Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
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Thomas Jefferys, A Map of the Most
Inhabited Part of New England, 1755.
Detail showing Long Island. The model
for most maps showing Long Island as a whole between 1755 and the De Witt
map of 1802.
(Library of Congress, Geography
and Map Division.)
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John Montresor, A Map of the Province
of New York, 1775.
Southern sheet showing Long Island. Based
on previous map, but shows some additional details on western Long Island.
(Library of Congress, Geography
and Map Division.)
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Anonymous, The Country Twenty-five
Miles Round New York, Drawn by a Gentleman from from That City, 1777.
Shows western Long Island at the time
of the Battle of Long Island.
(Library Company of Philadelphia.)
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J.F.W. Des Barres, A Sketch of the
Operations of His Majesty's Fleet and Army under the Command of the Rt.
Hble. Lord Viscount Howe and Genl. Sr. W,. Howe, K.B., in 1776, [1778].
Shows movement of troops at the Battle
of Long Island.
(New York Public Library.)
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J.F.W Des Barres, Oyster Bay and Huntington,
1778.
Detail showing area around Huntington.
(Courtesy New York Public
Library.)
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[Benjamin Tallmadge?], A Rough Draught
of Fort St. George on the South Side of Long Island, [1780?].
Shows British fort in southern Brookhaven
captured by the Americans under the command of Tallmadge.
(Connecticut Historical
Society.)
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Isaac Hulse, "Map of the Town of Brookhaven,
in the County of Suffolk," 1797. Detail of area around Port Jefferson.
One of a series of town maps drawn up at the end of the eighteenth century
as a result of a law passed by the New York State Legislature.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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Simeon De Witt, A Map of the State
of New York, 1802 [southern Sheet].
First American map of Long Island to improve
on British revolutionary war era maps.
(Original Possessed by Library
of Congress, Geography and Map Division.)
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David Burr, part of "Map of the County
of Suffolk," from his Atlas of the State of New York, 1829.
Detailed map based on surveys by DeWitt.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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Edmund Blunt, Long Island Sound from
New York to Montauk Point, Surveyed in the Years 1828.29.30., 1830.
Detail showing western end of Long Island
Sound.
(Library of Congress, Geography
and Map Division.)
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U.S. Coast Survey, Sketch B., No. 2,
Showing the Triangulation & Geographical Positions in Section No. II
from New York City to Point Judith, 1851.
Shows base line on Fire Island and triangulation
network used in first survey by U.S. government.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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U.S. Coast Survey, Detail of a Manuscript
map showing Huntington area, 1837.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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U.S. Coast Survey, Middle Part of the
Southern Coast of Long Island, 1857.
Detail from a published Coast Survey map.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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U.S. National Ocean Survey, Oyster
and Huntington Bays, 1996.
Modern nautical chart made by the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the successor agency to Coast Survey.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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J. Chace, Map of Suffolk County,1858.
Detail showing area near Southampton.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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F.W. Beers, Atlas of Long Island, New
York, 1873.
Plate showing plan for community of Sea
Cliff Grove.
(Original Possessed by State
University of New York at Stony Brook.)
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Fowler and Bulger, Hempstead, N.Y.,
Long Island, 1876.
Bird's-eye view.
(Long Island Studies Institute,
Hofstra University.)
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Hyde and Company, Map of Long Island,
1896.
Detail of area near Port Jefferson.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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United States Geological Survey, Area
around Huntington from Northport Quadrangle, 1903.
Typical early U.S.G.S. 15' map. Compare
with digital map of same area shown below.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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United States Geological Survey, Topographic
Map of Long Island New York, 1913.
Detail showing eastern Long Island.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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U.S. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. Soil
Map, Suffolk and Nassau Counties, 1928.
Part of the largest and most colorful
thematic map of Long Island.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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Henry I. Jebb, Jebb Guide Map, Greater
New York, 1930.
Real estate map showing growth of urbanized
areas near New York.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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U.S. Bureau of the Census, "Nassau and
Suffolk Couties: Black Population as a Percentage of the Total Population,"
from Urban Atlas; Tract Data for Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas,
1974.
Example of a typical computer-produced
map using census data.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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United States Geological Survey, Huntington
Quadrangle, 1979.
Detail of a small portion of a digital
version of a modern topographic map.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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United States Geological Survey, Color
aerial photograph of Port Jefferson area, 1988.
Rapidly growing vegetation, such as golf
courses, appears to be red.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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EROS Data Center, Satellite view of western
Long Island.
Built up areas appear to be blue in this
rendition.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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Population by Household Income in Suffolk
County, N.Y.
Digital map produced using data files
generated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
(State University of New
York at Stony Brook.)
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