Egg Harbor, New Jersey, 1924 – 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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This antique map of Egg Harbor, New Jersey, 1924 brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Aero view of Egg Harbor City, New Jersey
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Egg Harbor, New Jersey, 1924
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In 1924, Egg Harbor sat in the pine and farm country of Atlantic County, a short drive from Atlantic City, whose hotels and Boardwalk drew summer visitors from Philadelphia and beyond. National Prohibition had been in force since 1920, and the bays and creeks along the South Jersey coast were known as routes for rum-running, which put the region's back roads and waterways in the news. Many households relied on small farms, cranberry and blueberry bogs, and seasonal work tied to the resorts, while automobile traffic was beginning to change how people moved between the towns and the shore. The town's layout in that year shows a community on the edge of a growing resort economy, just before the Great Depression would reshape it.
| Created / published | 1924 |
|---|---|
| Creator | cinquin, rene, hughes & cinquin |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Egg Harbor, New Jersey, drawn in 1924. 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 | 11,296 × 6,432 px · prints to 38 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Aero view of Egg Harbor City, New Jersey |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489704 |
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