Egg Harbor, New Jersey, 1865 – Antique Wall Map
(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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This antique map of Egg Harbor, New Jersey, 1865 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Egg Harbor City, N.J.
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Egg Harbor, New Jersey, 1865
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Egg Harbor, New Jersey, in 1865 was a small coastal community in Atlantic County, shaped by the pine barrens and the bay that gave the region its name. The German colony of Egg Harbor City, founded in 1854 by settlers from Philadelphia and New York, sat nearby and gave the area a strong German-speaking community. The Camden and Atlantic Railroad, completed through the county in the 1850s, tied the district to Philadelphia markets and carried farm goods, timber, and summer visitors toward the shore. The year also marked the end of the Civil War, and residents would have been adjusting to peace, returning soldiers, and the slow rebuilding of local trade.
| Created / published | 1865 |
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| Creator | scheu, f., herline & hensel |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Egg Harbor, New Jersey, drawn in 1865. 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 | 8,512 × 6,768 px · prints to 28 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Egg Harbor City, N.J. |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489703 |
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