Long Island City - Africa and on the right over

and on the right over a dozen insets show specific islands

and Porto Rico would be attractive framed

and some marginal staining

and the situation of the Indian reservations at the time

A fine copperplate engraving with crisp detail

Long Island City - Africa and on the right overLong Island City It is now an area full of neighborhoods such as Astoria, Hunters Point, Dutch Kills and Queens West, amongst others, but this folding map shows the area when from Rikers island to the Newtown Creek, it was all just Long Island City, bounded by neighboring Newtown. Just prior to the Queensborough bridge, the proposed area of the approach to the bridge is shown. A large Blackwells Island (present day Roosevelt island) is shown, but