Maplewood, New Jersey, 1910 – 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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A window into the past: Maplewood, New Jersey, 1910, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye-view of Maplewood, N.J.
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Maplewood, New Jersey, 1910
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Maplewood, New Jersey, in 1910 was a leafy commuter village in Essex County, where families had settled to live within reach of Newark and New York. Many residents rode the Lackawanna line to jobs in the city, and the railroad station and the nearby business blocks formed the commercial heart of town. Maplewood had been a separate township since the 1860s, and civic life centered on its churches, schools, and volunteer clubs. Streets of frame and brick houses on shaded lots reflected the suburban ideal that drew people away from crowded city neighborhoods. Locals of the day knew the village mainly as a quiet place to raise a family within easy reach of work.
| Created / published | 1910 |
|---|---|
| Creator | wyllie, h. s. (henry shaw) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Maplewood, New Jersey, drawn in 1910. 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 | 4,419 × 3,564 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye-view of Maplewood, N.J. |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489712 |
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