Asbury Park 2, New Jersey, 1881 – 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 Asbury Park 2, New Jersey, 1881. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, New Jersey 1881
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Asbury Park 2, New Jersey, 1881
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Asbury Park, on the Monmouth County coast of New Jersey, was about a decade old in 1881. Methodist promoters had laid it out as a seaside resort named for Bishop Francis Asbury, and its early appeal rested on a dry, orderly summer community close to the ocean. Rail service from New York and Philadelphia brought steady streams of visitors who filled its hotels, boarding houses, and cottages, and the town's economy depended on that summer trade. The map records a place still growing from its first plots, with its street grid, churches, and lodgings laid out along the shore as the resort tried to establish its name.
| Created / published | 1881 |
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| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer), beck & pauli |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Asbury Park 2, New Jersey, drawn in 1881. 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 | 11,280 × 6,320 px · prints to 38 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, New Jersey 1881 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489695 |
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