Newark, New Jersey, 1874 – 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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Newark, New Jersey, 1874 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: City of Newark, N.J.
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Newark, New Jersey, 1874
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In 1874 Newark, New Jersey, was one of the largest manufacturing cities in the state, with leather tanning, boot and shoe making, carriage works, and a growing jewelry trade keeping thousands of workers busy along the Passaic River and the rail lines that ran through the city. Its population had passed 100,000 by 1870, and many residents were German and Irish immigrants who worked in the factories and ran the breweries and small shops on the city's streets. The national financial Panic of 1873 had struck only months earlier, leaving mills and workshops cutting hours and wages, so the town's civic talk in that year often turned to jobs and the city's debts. The map shows a city still mostly built of low brick and frame houses, with its factories and church spires crowded close together.
| Created / published | 1874 |
|---|---|
| Creator | parsons & atwater |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Newark, New Jersey, drawn in 1874. 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 | 8,816 × 6,760 px · prints to 29 × 23 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | City of Newark, N.J. |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489717 |
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