Morristown, New Jersey, 1899 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures Morristown, New Jersey, 1899 in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Morristown, New Jersey, 1899
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Morristown, New Jersey, in 1899 was the county seat of Morris County, and its growth had followed the railroad. The Morris and Essex line had connected it to New York since the 1830s, and by the late 1890s commuters and summer residents were building large houses on its hills while the older downtown served local merchants and the county courts. The town's Revolutionary past gave it a particular pride, since Washington's army wintered in the surrounding hills at Jockey Hollow in 1779 and 1780 and made its headquarters at the Ford Mansion in town. Residents would have known Morristown as a quiet, well-kept place of churches, schools, and estates that looked back to the war even as the trains carried its professional men to Manhattan each morning.
| Created / published | 1899 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Morristown, New Jersey, drawn in 1899. 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 | 7,200 × 6,000 px · prints to 24 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489714 |
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