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Browse All : Tourism of New York from 1940
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Author
Sundberg, Edwin L.
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Map of New York City beaches, including all five boroughs, inset into a map of the greater vicinity. Printed in color, on newsprint, as map appeared in the Sunday News. Includes a legend, bar scale, and compass rose. With descriptive text, beginning: For years increasing quantities of sewage dumped into the waters around the metropolitan area threatened to make bathing beaches unfit for public use. A new, comprehensive plan of sewage disposal by the Department of Public Works in the city - and upstate under the direction of the Interstate Sanitation Commission - is slowly but surely clearing the waters of pollution and improving the conditions of the beaches ... Map is 55 x 36 cm, on sheet 58 x 39 cm. Newspaper advertisements on verso.
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