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Lot 61
[NEW YORK] Jacob Ruppert's Knickerbocker Beer [Panoramic View of New York and Vicinity].
[New York:] Jacob Ruppert/ United States Printing & Lithography Co., 1912. Chromolithographed birds-eye view of New York and region. Image 19 3/4 x 28 inches (50 x 71 cm). Professional restoration including in-painting to losses, laid to sheet and archival canvas.
This is an attractive and scarce map of the New York region published by the Yorkville brewer Jacob Ruppert (the location of the brewery noted with a black star). The map shows an expansive view of the region reaching from Sandy Hook in the south and Yonkers to the north, to Hicksville in the east and past Newark to the west. Beyond his beer empire, Ruppert is an important figure in New York sports: he and a partner bought the struggling New York Yankees franchise in 1915, bought Babe Ruth from Boston in 1919, and in 1923 opened Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Some extant copies of the map seem to feature the caption title above in the lower margin, not present here. We trace only one copy at auction.
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