Margate City, New Jersey, 1924 – 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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Margate City, New Jersey, 1924 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Aeroview of Margate City, New Jersey 1925
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Margate City, New Jersey, 1924
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In 1924, Margate City was a summer resort on Absecon Island, just north of Atlantic City, and its economy rested on seasonal visitors who came for the beach, bathing and rented cottages. Prohibition was in force that year, so the town's hotels and boarding houses served a crowd that was used to the nearby Atlantic City boardwalk's mix of pleasure and nightlife. The town's most famous landmark was already four decades old: Lucy the Elephant, a large wooden building shaped like an elephant, had been built in 1881 by a real estate promoter to attract buyers to lots along the shore. Residents of the time would have known Margate for that oddity as much as for its sand and surf.
| Created / published | 1924 |
|---|---|
| Creator | cinquin, rene, hughes & cinquin |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Margate City, New Jersey, drawn in 1924. 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 | 10,896 × 6,688 px · prints to 36 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aeroview of Margate City, New Jersey 1925 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489713 |
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