Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1909 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1909. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Atlantic City, New Jersey 1909
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Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1909
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Atlantic City, New Jersey, in 1909 was a resort of many large hotels lining the oceanfront, and its leaders were looking for ways to draw visitors beyond the midsummer rush. The Million Dollar Pier, opened on the ocean front in 1906, gave crowds a promenade, band concerts, and entertainments built out over the water. Year-round residents worked in the building trades, in hotel service, and in the fishing boats that worked from Absecon Inlet, while the city government kept up streets, paving, and the bathhouses along the beach. The town the map records is a dense grid of hotel blocks and cottages, and the people who lived there knew it as the place where most of the year's income was earned in July and August.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hughes & bailey |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Atlantic City, New Jersey, drawn in 1909. 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 | 11,312 × 6,496 px · prints to 38 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Atlantic City, New Jersey 1909 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489699 |
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