Rutherford, New Jersey, 1904 – 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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Rutherford, New Jersey, 1904 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Rutherford, New Jersey 1904
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Rutherford, New Jersey, 1904
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Rutherford, New Jersey, in 1904 was a small borough in Bergen County, about ten miles west of Manhattan, and it was changing from a quiet farming district into a commuter suburb. The Erie Railroad's main line ran through the town, carrying residents to jobs in New York and Jersey City, and the Passaic River and its low meadows shaped where mills, a few small factories, and workers' housing could go. Most of the new construction was single-family houses set on tree-lined streets, along with churches, schools, and shops near the station. The map's street-by-street detail reflects that growth, showing a community that was still small enough to know its own neighbors but was already tied closely to the larger city.
| Created / published | 1904 |
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| Creator | hughes, t. j. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Rutherford, New Jersey, drawn in 1904. 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 | 8,944 × 5,856 px · prints to 30 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Rutherford, New Jersey 1904 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489723 |
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