Prototype for New York City Subway Map
Object Details
- Designer
- Michael Hertz Associates, New York, New York, USA
- Client
- New York Transit Authority, New York, New York, USA
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical format New York City subway transit map depicting subway lines throughout the borroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn. At lower left, detail of the southern tip of Manhattan and the westernmost edge of Brooklyn. Dark blue surrounding border, at left printed with white letters A through L, at bottom printed with white numbers 1 through 10. Legend contained within white rectangle at upper right. Rivers and bays indicated in light blue, parks indicated in green.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Unknown Donor
- 1978
- Accession Number
- 1987-24-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 70.5 × 57.8 cm (27 3/4 × 22 3/4 in.)
- made in
- USA
- place depicted
- New York, NY, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1987-24-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq47a3ea450-fd2a-4b1e-8e77-c06dff076872
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