Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1897 – 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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Step back in time with Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1897, an antique map rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Asbury Park, Ocean Grove and vicinity, New Jersey 1897
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Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1897
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Asbury Park, New Jersey, in 1897 was a seaside resort that had grown into a dense town of hotels, boarding houses, and rental cottages within a generation of its founding. Its economy ran on summer visitors who arrived by rail from Newark, New York, and Philadelphia, so the season's receipts shaped nearly every street near the ocean. Ocean-front amusements, bathing, and promenading drew crowds through the warm months, while year-round residents depended on the trade that followed them. Few towns of its size on the Jersey shore were so closely tied to a single summer rhythm, and the local people of that decade would have measured their prosperity by how full the hotels and beach were each August.
| Created / published | 1897 |
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| Creator | landis and hughes |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Asbury Park, New Jersey, drawn in 1897. 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 | 12,592 × 10,016 px · prints to 42 × 33 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Asbury Park, Ocean Grove and vicinity, New Jersey 1897 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489693 |
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