Details: CLARKE & STEPHENSON (publishers). Clarke & Stephenson's New York City Guide. For August, 1862. New York: French & Wheat, printers, 1862. Folding map, printed in blue, advertisements printed in blue on verso, 32pp. letterpress text, with integral advertisements (minor silverfish damage to the first and last two text leaves). Folds into original cream card wrappers, titled in red on the exterior of the upper cover, advertisements in red on interior of the upper cover, and the interior and exterior of the lower cover, contemporary signature on the upper outer cover. Sheet size: 12 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches.

A snap-shot of New York City during the Civil War.

The map covers from Battery Park to 17th Street and Union Square, with the ferry routes marked and a small section of Brooklyn in the lower left corner. The text covers 'places of Amusement; banks; city railroads; location of Commissioners of police; Custom house; table of distances; exchanges; express companies; ferries; freight and transport companies; hack charges; hotels; location of piers, places of interest; post offices; and railroad trains". There is also a large variety of advertisements, including a large illustrated ad for B. B. & J. Hagerty's medical glassware, card photographs of celebrated Americans, patent axle grease, American Indian goods, New Haven patent shirts, to various publisher's and printers.

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