Research Catalog

Title

Shell street guide of Brooklyn - Queens.

Author

Shell Oil Company, creator.

Publication

Chicago, IL : H.M. Gousha Co., [1940?]

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Additional Authors

H.M. Gousha Company, publisher, cartographer.

Description

2 maps on one sheet : both sides color; 65 x 59 cm or smaller, sheet 68 x 70 cm

Alternative Title

• Shell map of Long Island.
• Shell street guide and metropolitan map of Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island

Subjects

• Queens (New York, N.Y.) > Maps
• Maps
• Streets > New York (State) > New York > Maps
• New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.) > Maps
• Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) > Maps
• Long Island (N.Y.) > Maps

Genre/Form

Maps.

Note

• Design to be folded to 23 x 11 cm.
• Includes "Index to streets of Brooklyn, Bronx, and Nassau County", "Index to streets of Queens and Manhattan", and "Index Long Island and vicinity cities and tows, beaches, parks, airports, yacht clubs, points of interest, golf and country clubs."
• Also includes images and text under heading "In1940 the New York World's Fair."
• Panel art: Shell logo and slogan "tour with confidence."
• "2-N-1940-1"

Call Number

Map Div. 19-130

OCLC

988029567

Author

Shell Oil Company, creator.

Title

Shell street guide of Brooklyn - Queens.

Publisher

Chicago, IL : H.M. Gousha Co., [1940?]

Cartographic Data

Scale approximately 1:43,000 (W 74°02ʹ43ʺ--W 73°41ʹ33ʺ/N 40°48ʹ45ʺ--N 40°32ʹ15ʺ).

Scale approximately 1:200,000 (W 74°04ʹ--W 71°48ʹ/N 41°11ʹ--N 40°32ʹ).

Type of Content

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Local Note

NYPL Map Div. copy has accession no. stamped in lower left corner: 53375

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Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York City.

Added Author

H.M. Gousha Company, publisher, cartographer.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 19-130 [Filed as Brooklyn 1940]