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Map Map of Black Tom Island, Jersey City, New Jersey : showing area damaged by explosion and fire, July 30th 1916.

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Title

  • Map of Black Tom Island, Jersey City, New Jersey : showing area damaged by explosion and fire, July 30th 1916.

Names

  • Sanborn Map Company.

Created / Published

  • New York City : Sanborn Map Co., [1916?]

Headings

  • -  Black Tom Island (N.J.)--Surveys--Maps
  • -  Black Tom Island (N.J.)--Maps
  • -  Black Tom Explosion, Jersey City, N.J., 1916--Surveys--Maps
  • -  Harbors--New Jersey--Jersey City--Maps
  • -  Wharves--New Jersey--Jersey City--Maps
  • -  Warehouses--New Jersey--Jersey City--Maps
  • -  World War, 1914-1918--Destruction and pillage--New Jersey--Maps
  • -  United States--New Jersey--Jersey City--Black Tom Island
  • -  United States--New Jersey--Jersey City

Notes

  • -  Survey map of ammunition storage facilities, industrial plants, warehouses, railroad tracks, wharves, and piers damaged by a German sabotage operation during World War I.
  • -  Oriented with north toward the upper right.
  • -  "Note: This territory also covered by sheets 84, 85, 86 & 89 of Hudson County, vol. 9."
  • -  Watermark: Permalife, 25% cotton content.
  • -  Includes text, notes, and inset of northern portion of the damaged area.

Medium

  • 1 map : col. ; 96 x 68 cm., folded to 24 x 35 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G3814.J5:2B5S65 1916 .S3

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2010588272

Online Format

  • image

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Sanborn Map Company. Map of Black Tom Island, Jersey City, New Jersey: showing area damaged by explosion and fire, July 30th. [New York City: Sanborn Map Co., ?, 1916] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2010588272/.

APA citation style:

Sanborn Map Company. (1916) Map of Black Tom Island, Jersey City, New Jersey: showing area damaged by explosion and fire, July 30th. [New York City: Sanborn Map Co., ?] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2010588272/.

MLA citation style:

Sanborn Map Company. Map of Black Tom Island, Jersey City, New Jersey: showing area damaged by explosion and fire, July 30th. [New York City: Sanborn Map Co., ?, 1916] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2010588272/>.