Garfield, New Jersey, 1909 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Garfield, New Jersey, 1909. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of Garfield, New Jersey 1909
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Garfield, New Jersey, 1909
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Garfield, New Jersey, in 1909 was a Passaic River mill community in Bergen County, part of the textile belt that spread out from Paterson. Its factories, especially silk and dye works, drew families who came for steady wages, and the town's population grew with each new mill shift. Residents would have measured their town by its working streets, its churches and schools, and the trolley and rail links that carried people to jobs in neighboring cities. Few of them could have seen their whole town at once, so a view like this one showed them the streets they walked every day in a single frame.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Garfield, New Jersey, drawn in 1909. 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 | 9,040 × 6,432 px · prints to 30 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of Garfield, New Jersey 1909 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489706 |
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