New Mexico Townsite Plat Map
PublisherPublished by
New Mexico Townsite Corp.
(New Mexico, active ca. 1900 - ca. 1940)
Dateca. 1930
Mediumink on paper
Dimensions14 x 50 in. (35.6 x 127 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Sheli Armstrong
Object numberPC2013.20.11
DescriptionThis hand drawn plat map of Albuquerque, New Mexico indicates the houses, businesses, and owners of buildings from Central Avenue to Eighth Street horizontally, and Copper Avenue to Gold Avenue vertically. Showcasing the owners of the buildings on Route 66 for Central Avenue up to Sixth Street, each rectangular plat has pencil markings with names of resident family names or businesses. In the lower right is part of a compass indicating the direction of only north (vertically) with an extended arrow point. Below this is the maker New Mexico Townsite and the scale which is an inch for sixty feet. There are infrequent red pencil marks for edits.On View
Not on view
June 26, 1940
