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Below is everything you need to retrieve the complete sheet that your scan comes from, plus adjacent sheets if you want to keep going.
1 What this fragment actually is
- Sheet title: “The district of Pelham Neck, within the borough of the Bronx, with Pelham Manor, and New Rochelle to Mamaroneck, together with the islands in the Sound adjoining – Map VII B.”
- Publication: Indian Paths in the Great Metropolis by Reginald Pelham Bolton (Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1922; map artwork © A. R. Ohman Map Co., 1912).
- Context: Map VII was issued in four quadrants (A, B, C, D) to cover the entire modern Bronx and a slice of southern Westchester. Your picture is the lower-centre of quadrant B. (The red numbers 22-25 are Bolton’s catalogue of Native-American stations; “Laaphawachking” is the Siwanoy placename for today’s Split-Rock-Pelham Bay area.) (Digital Collections)
2 Direct, high-resolution source (best option)
NYPL scanned every sheet individually:
NYPL Digital Collections permalink
https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/fd701400-d044-0138-05f6-5764fcf1c756 (Digital Collections)
- Open the link (NYPL occasionally blocks hot-linking; copy–paste the URL into a new tab if necessary).
- Click “Download Options → Original” for a ~60 MB TIFF (over 10,000 px on the long side).
- Your partial scan fits roughly the central third of that file; the TIFF shows everything north to the Yonkers line and east to Davenport Neck.
3 Alternate, whole-book PDF (if you’d like the other quadrants too)
Internet Archive / Smithsonian Libraries hosts a full-colour, 375-page PDF of Bolton’s monograph that includes all eight maps bound in after the text:
https://archive.org/download/indianpathsingre01bolt/indianpathsingre01bolt.pdf (Internet Archive)
- Map VII B is the eighth PDF page after the textual page numbered 112 (roughly PDF p. 150).
- Zoom to at least 200 % before exporting a snapshot; resolution is lower than NYPL but still serviceable for on-screen study.
- The adjoining sheets are just a few pages farther on: VII A (north-west Bronx), VII C (Harlem River–Kingsbridge), VII D (Throgs Neck).
4 Commercial re-prints / quick previews
If you need an instant look without downloading huge files, these water-marked previews work:
- Alamy stock image (medium-res JPEG preview): https://www.alamy.com/the-district-of-pelham-neck-within-the-borough-of-the-bronx-with-pelham-manor-and-new-rochelle-to-mamaroneck-together-with-the-islands-in-the-sound-adjoining-map-vii-b-1912-by-ar-ohman-map-co-image633310789.html (Alamy)
- Picryl mirror of NYPL scan: https://picryl.com/media/the-district-of-pelham-neck-within-the-borough-of-the-bronx-with-pelham-manor-and-new-rochelle-to-mamaroneck-together-with-the-islands-in-the-sound-adjoining-map-vii-b-1912-by-ar-ohman-map-co (no water-mark, ~4 MP) (Picryl)
5 Tips for stitching or printing
- NYPL and Internet-Archive scans are public-domain; you may crop, stitch, or print without restriction.
- For wall display at 300 dpi: the NYPL TIFF will comfortably print at ~34 × 26 in (86 × 66 cm) without up-scaling.
- If you’d like the entire four-quadrant Map VII seamless, load the four NYPL TIFFs into QGIS or any image-manipulation program and align them using the neatline ticks in the margins.
Enjoy exploring the complete Siwanoy landscape!
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