New York City Subway Map
Object Details
- Designer
- Massimo Vignelli, Italian, active USA, 1931–2014
- Client
- New York Transit Authority, New York, New York, USA
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Vertical format New York City subway transit map depicting subway lines throughout the borroughs of Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn. Legend contained within horizontal margin at top. Rivers and bays indicated in light tan, land indicated in white, major parks indicated in brown. Compass at lower left.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Unknown Donor
- 1974
- Accession Number
- 1987-24-2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Poster
- Type
- Poster
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 71.1 x 58.4 cm (28 x 23 in.)
- made in
- USA
- place depicted
- New York, NY, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1987-24-2
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4679216ff-d890-440c-8ad1-d5b609a814e3
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