Hammonton, New Jersey, 1926 – Antique Wall Map
(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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This rare antique map captures Hammonton, New Jersey, 1926 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Hammonton, New Jersey 1926
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Hammonton, New Jersey, 1926
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Hammonton, in Atlantic County in South Jersey, was a farm town in 1926, with an economy built on peaches, strawberries, and the sandy soil that suited them. Elizabeth White had been working on cultivated blueberries since the early 1910s with federal scientists, and by the mid-1920s the crop was beginning to make the town known as a shipping point for fruit bound for northern markets. Italian immigrants, many drawn to farm and vineyard work, formed a large part of the community, and their vineyards and wine making were familiar sights even as Prohibition, in force since 1920, squeezed that trade. Rail lines carried crates of fruit out of town toward Philadelphia and the shore resorts to the east.
| Created / published | 1926 |
|---|---|
| Creator | hughes & bailey |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Hammonton, New Jersey, drawn in 1926. 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 | 9,888 × 8,176 px · prints to 33 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Hammonton, New Jersey 1926 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489708 |
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