Johnf Harrison News Today

John F. Harrison, a prominent local musician and retired Chair of the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Elizabethtown College, was always looking for beauty in the ordinary moments of

  1867 (undated)         1 : 5000 Description A scarce map of New York Citys Upper West Side, including the southern half of Central Park, issued in 1867 by Matthew Dripps. This is likely the earliest obtainable specific map of the Upper West Side, predating the maps of Egbert Vielé (1868), John Bute Holmes (1874), and Herman Knickerbocker Vielé (1879). Moreover, as the map predates most major development on the Upper West Side, its ichnographic qualities - showing the layout of n...