Birds eye view West Hoboken, New Jersey, 1914 – 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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Library of Congress record: Birds eye view of West Hoboken
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Birds eye view West Hoboken, New Jersey, 1914
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West Hoboken in 1914 was a densely built township on the Palisades side of the Hudson, just across the river from Manhattan, and much of its population worked in nearby industry or commuted to New York. The township had grown rapidly in the preceding decades as German, Irish and later Eastern European immigrants settled its streets of frame and brick houses, and its churches, beer halls and German-language societies gave it a distinctly Old World character. Trolley lines and ferry connections tied it to Hoboken and the city across the water, and the Palisades rising behind the town were quarried for stone and bordered by orchards and open land. A bird's-eye view from this period captures the tight grid of rooftops and church spires that residents of the town knew as home, on the eve of the First World War.
| Created / published | 1914 |
|---|---|
| Creator | wachter, josef theodor |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--New Jersey |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,257 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birds eye view of West Hoboken |
| Reference | NJ Birds eye view West Hoboken 1914 |
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