Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1898 – Historic Map Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique map captures Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1898 in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Elizabeth, N.J. 1898
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Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1898
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Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1898 was a manufacturing and port city on Newark Bay, where the Central Railroad of New Jersey served coal and freight piers at Elizabethport and factories along the Elizabeth River shipped goods by rail and water. The Singer Manufacturing Company's sewing machine works at Elizabethport was one of the best-known employers in the area, and its workers lived close to the rail yards and docks. The town also carried a colonial past, having been an early seat of government for the province of New Jersey in the seventeenth century, and its older churches and streets stood beside newer commercial blocks. Residents would have known Elizabeth first as a working harbor, with the bay shore busy with cargo and with traffic bound for New York.
| Created / published | 1898 |
|---|---|
| Creator | landis and hughes |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Elizabeth, New Jersey, drawn in 1898. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--New Jersey |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 14,197 × 9,856 px · prints to 47 × 33 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Elizabeth, N.J. 1898 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489705 |
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