Ocean City, New Jersey, 1903 – 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 Ocean City, New Jersey, 1903 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Ocean City, N.J. : showing its unrivalled location, beautiful sea-shore, protected sailing waters, and famous fishing grounds, also railroads and ferry connections, artesian water, sanitary sewage [sic], electric lights, gas, electric cars
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Ocean City, New Jersey, 1903
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Ocean City, New Jersey, in 1903 was a young seaside resort on a barrier island south of Atlantic City. Methodist leaders had founded it in 1879 as a dry, orderly summer retreat, and its prohibition on liquor sales and its strict Sabbath rules still shaped daily life a generation later. Visitors arrived by rail to fill boarding houses, hotels and cottages each summer, and the boardwalk along the ocean front was the town's main social stage. Fishing and the summer trade supported the small year-round population, which depended on the season's crowds for most of its income.
| Created / published | 1903 |
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| Creator | taylor, frank h. (frank hamilton) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Ocean City, 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 | 12,329 × 8,385 px · prints to 41 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Ocean City, N.J. : showing its unrivalled location, beautiful sea-shore, protected sailing waters, and famous fishing grounds, also railroads and ferry connections, artesian water, sanitary sewage [sic], electric lights, gas, electric cars |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-489720 |
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