Arlington Kearny, New Jersey, 1907 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Arlington Kearny, New Jersey, 1907. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: [Arlington, N.J.]
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Arlington Kearny, New Jersey, 1907
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In 1907 Kearny was a manufacturing and rail town on the Hudson County side of the Passaic River meadows, across from Newark and not far from Jersey City. Its Arlington district, the section this bird's-eye view takes in, was a mix of working-class housing, factories and freight yards serving the railroad lines that crossed the flats. Thread and textile mills, along with plants that made chemicals and metal goods, drew workers from Newark, Hungary, Italy, Ireland and Poland, and the town's population grew steadily as a result. Kearny had been set off as its own township in 1867 and was named for the Civil War general Philip Kearny, a point local residents of the period would have known well. The town's streets, churches and ward halls are what the drawing records in such detail.
| Created / published | 1907 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Arlington Kearny, New Jersey, drawn in 1907. 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 | 8,144 × 4,928 px · prints to 27 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Arlington, N.J.] |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489691 |
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