Newark, New Jersey, 1895 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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: Newark, New Jersey, 1895, preserved in this antique map. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Newark, N.J., Harrison-Kearney 1895
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Newark, New Jersey, 1895
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By 1895 Newark had grown to roughly 180,000 residents, making it the largest city in New Jersey and a manufacturing center in its own right. Leather remained the city's leading trade, with tanneries and currier shops along the Passaic and in the streets nearby, and the jewelry and hat trades employed many more skilled hands. The Prudential Insurance Company, founded in Newark in 1875, drew clerks and agents from across the region to its growing home office, so white-collar work had become a visible part of downtown life. Residents also watched the expansion of electric streetcar lines, which carried workers from the crowded wards out to the newer neighborhoods on the city's edges.
| Created / published | 1895 |
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| Creator | landis, t. j. shepherd |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Newark, New Jersey, drawn in 1895. 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 | 13,984 × 9,664 px · prints to 47 × 32 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Newark, N.J., Harrison-Kearney 1895 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489718 |
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