Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, 1894 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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 Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, 1894. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey 1894
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Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, 1894
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Atlantic Highlands, on the western shore of Sandy Hook Bay in Monmouth County, New Jersey, was a summer and steamboat town in 1894. Its growth depended on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, whose trains brought summer visitors from New York and other cities to the bayside terminal, where boats carried passengers across the water. Hotels and cottages climbed the rising ground above the harbor, while year-round residents who fished and worked the boats lived alongside seasonal boarders. The borough had only been set off as its own municipality a few years earlier, so its streets, water supply, and civic arrangements were still taking shape. This view shows the town's layout as it stood before the resort trade grew busier in the years that followed.
| Created / published | 1894 |
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| Creator | o.h. bailey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey, drawn in 1894. 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 | 9,936 × 6,992 px · prints to 33 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey 1894 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489701 |
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