Hackensack, New Jersey, 1896 – Antique Wall Map
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Hackensack, New Jersey, 1896. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Hackensack, New Jersey
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Hackensack, New Jersey, 1896
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Hackensack, the county seat of Bergen County, New Jersey, was a river town of a few thousand people in 1896, set along the Hackensack River about ten miles west of New York City. Its roots went back to Dutch settlement in the 1600s, and by the 1890s its streets held courthouses, churches, stores, and mills, with the surrounding farms supplying dairy, produce, and hay to nearby markets. Improved rail and road links to New York were beginning to draw commuters and new residents out from the city, a shift that would reshape Bergen County over the following decades. A map drawn that year captures a town at the edge of that change, when the county seat still looked largely like a place of local trade and public business.
| Created / published | 1896 |
|---|---|
| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Hackensack, New Jersey, drawn in 1896. 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 | 9,989 × 7,086 px · prints to 33 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Hackensack, New Jersey |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489707 |
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