xxxli           THE ICONOGRAPHY OF MANHATTAN ISLAND

and material development of Manhattan Island should record, in perma¬
nent form, its physical characteristics, as they exist at the present time. For
this purpose, the Insurance and Real Estate Plan of the Island published by
G. W. Bromley in 1908, which shows the water-fronts, streets, buildings,
transit systems, elevations above high water, etc., was selected, and was
reproduced at a scale which makes it possible to read—with a glass—every
letter and figure.

In closing, I wish to record my sincere thanks to Mr. Clarence H.
Kelsey, President, and to the other officers of the Title Guarantee & Trust
Company, for generously permitting the freest use of their plant and
records, without which this work could not have been fully accomplished.

I. N.  Phelps Stokes

New York

January, 1916