Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1881 – 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 Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1881. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1881
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Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1881
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Asbury Park, New Jersey, in 1881 was a young seaside resort on the Atlantic coast, only about a decade old. James A. Bradley and a group of Methodist investors had founded it in the early 1870s as a temperance community, and its sale of lots and cottages was restricted to keep liquor out. Visitors arrived by rail from Philadelphia and New York, and their money supported hotels, boarding houses, and summer cottages laid out in a grid near the ocean. The town's religious character set it apart from nearby resorts, and its rapid growth in the years after the Civil War made it one of the better-known shore communities in the state.
| Created / published | 1881 |
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| Creator | fowler, t. m. (thaddeus mortimer) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Asbury Park, 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 | 7,840 × 5,568 px · prints to 26 × 19 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1881 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489692 |
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