Somerville, New Jersey, 1882 – Antique Map Print
(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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Step back in time with Somerville, New Jersey, 1882, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Somerville, New Jersey 1882
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Somerville, New Jersey, 1882
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In 1882 Somerville, the seat of Somerset County in north-central New Jersey, was a small market town in the Raritan River valley. Its economy rested on farming, milling, and trade in grain, dairy, and produce, and by then the railroad had become central to moving those goods to New York and Philadelphia. Residents of the county seat were tied to the courthouse, the churches, and the stores clustered around the town center, which served the surrounding farms as much as the town itself. A street-by-street view of the place, drawn that year, captured a community still shaped more by its farms and rail connections than by factories, and it shows the town as local people knew it before the next decades brought larger changes.
| Created / published | 1882 |
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| Creator | fowler & evans, fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer), beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Somerville, New Jersey, drawn in 1882. 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 | 7,872 × 4,816 px · prints to 26 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Somerville, New Jersey 1882 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489725 |
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