Historic Map : Regal Shoe View Map of New York City, 1898, Vintage Wall Art Lithographs of buildings 5252192 De Coligny

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Caspar and Company first issued the map in its present format in 1904

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Historic Map : Regal Shoe View Map of New York City, 1898, Vintage Wall Art Lithographs of buildings 5252192 De ColignyA fun cartographic curiosity, this is an 1898 shoe advertisement set against and backdrop of New York City. The view, prepared in 1897 by Moses King, has here been coopted to demonstrate the prosperity of the Regal Shoe Company. The caption describes how, if all the shoes they cold in 1897 were made into a single shoe that shoe would be 34 miles long and 17 miles higher hence the illustration at hand. And indeed, the Regal Shoe Company, founded by