Patterson, New Jersey, 1880 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Patterson, New Jersey, 1880 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Patterson, New Jersey, 1880
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Paterson, New Jersey, in 1880 was a mill city built around the Great Falls of the Passaic River, where water power had drawn manufacturers since the town was founded in 1791. Silk weaving had become the dominant trade, and dye works, machine shops, and the Rogers Locomotive Works made the city one of the busiest industrial centers in the state. Mill whistles set the working day for thousands of employees, many of them immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and elsewhere in Europe, who lived in tenements and frame houses close to the factories. Railroad lines carried finished goods to New York, roughly fifteen miles away, and the churches and public buildings along the city's streets reflected a population that depended on the mills for its livelihood.
| Created / published | 1880 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Patterson, New Jersey, drawn in 1880. 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 |
| Original scan | 11,241 × 9,367 px · prints to 37 × 31 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489721 |
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