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1915 New York State Collection Of Maps By Voting District - $110 (North Buffalo)
Frontenac Avenue near Tacoma
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The price is roughly based on the listing by a rare bookseller on Abe Books for which I have left the link for:
https://highridgebooks.com/product/state-of-new-york-enumeration-of-inhabitants-1925-maps-of-block-enumeration-in-cities-to-accompany-report-present-to-the-legislature-january-15-1926-by-florence-e-s-knapp-secretary-of-state/
They are charging $850 for the same basic set of maps that are ten-years older than what I have listed.
Here is another listing that I found for the 1915 census but it does not have a finished auction price:
https://www.proxibid.com/lotinformation/94359958/1915-new-york-state-enumeration-of-inhabitants-political-maps
Overall, the maps are in excellent condition-When I unfolded a few to take photos of them, the paper was solid and they folded back fine-Aside from the obvious aging of the outside binding, it appears that this collection was well-stored.
If you're a collector of antique maps, this is a treasure-trove.
Feel free to ask me any questions about this collection.
There's some natural age-related browning of the folders each set of maps are in.
Albany J.B. Lyon Company Printers 1916
Pencil writing on the top of the inside cover (as seen in the photograph)
The maps are from:
The Bronx 11 maps
Manhattan 32 maps
Lackawana 1 huge map
Tonawanda 5
Brooklyn 26
Buffalo 26
Rochester 60 all smaller single map election districts by ward
Other than Rochester, all of the other cities have a combination of large, small and huge maps.
My count of maps may be off by plus or minus ten, as I tried to be as careful as possible handling these.
This is a rare piece of New York State history-I did exhaustive online searching for information on this and there are some reprints of these enumerations/censuses, but I could only find a couple of older copies of the type of maps I'm selling.