1936 Gousha Pictorial Map of Manhattan, New York City

This is a 1936 H.M. Gousha Company pictorial map of New York City. The map depicts the island of Manhattan from the Hudson River to Queens and from the Poe Cottage in the Bronx to Liberty Island and the Statue of Liberty. Profile illustrations of famous sites dot Manhattan from one end to the other, with the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and Trinity Church among the highlights. Columbia University, the Met Cloisters, Hamilton Grange, Washington Square and the Arch, and Rockefeller Center are also illustrated. Yankee Stadium, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo are shown in the Bronx. The newly-opened Triborough Bridge, Queensborough Bridge, Williamsburg Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, and Brooklyn Bridge are all illustrated, as is the Holland Tunnel, although it is marked only by dashed lines.

Publication History

This map was created and published by the H.M. Gousha Company in 1936 and distributed by the Tide Water Oil Company. It is printed on a larger sheet with a road map of New York State on the verso.