Dover, New Jersey, 1903 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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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Dover, New Jersey, 1903 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: Dover, New Jersey 1903
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Dover, New Jersey, 1903
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Dover, New Jersey, in 1903 was a railroad and iron town in northern Morris County, shaped by trades that had drawn workers there for generations. The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad ran its main line through the valley, and many residents worked for the railroad or in the foundries and shops that served it. Iron mining in the surrounding hills had waned by then, but the ore trade and the nearby Morris Canal remained part of local memory. Churches, schools, and small commercial blocks lined the streets, and fraternal lodges and holiday parades gave the community its social life.
| Created / published | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fowler & bailey |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Dover, New Jersey, drawn in 1903. 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 | 6,848 × 5,920 px · prints to 23 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Dover, New Jersey 1903 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489702 |
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