Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905 – 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 City, New Jersey, 1905. 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 City, N.J.
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Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905
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In 1905, Atlantic City, New Jersey, was a summer resort on Absecon Island, and its hotels, rooming houses, and shops depended on a season of only a few months. Many of its working residents found jobs in hotel kitchens, dining rooms, and laundries, and seasonal labor from Philadelphia and southern New Jersey swelled the workforce each June. At the island's northern end, Absecon Inlet remained a working waterfront where fishing boats and pleasure craft came and went. Automobile races on the hard sand at low tide were drawing growing crowds to the beach. The map shows the town as residents knew it, a compact grid of hotels and cottages set between the ocean and the bay.
| Created / published | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Creator | national publishing co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Atlantic City, New Jersey, drawn in 1905. 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 | 7,968 × 3,344 px · prints to 27 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Atlantic City, N.J. |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489698 |
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