New Jersey Map 1882 County Print - Trenton, Newark, Camden
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Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr., working through Wm. M. Bradley & Bro. of Philadelphia, issued this New Jersey sheet in 1882, part of his New General Atlas published in 1886, a later 19th-century production built around county-level detail rather than the transportation-first or city-inset styling of earlier decades. This printing is hand-colored with relief shown through hachures, its counties laid out in Mitchell's characteristic style across a state whose position between New York and Philadelphia had, by the 1880s, made it one of the most densely crossed and industrialized corridors in the country. The sheet maps New Jersey statewide, tracking a state whose rail network had fully matured since its earlier, more agricultural decades.
New Jersey's counties are each shaded distinctly, separating the state's increasingly industrial northern reaches from its still largely agricultural southern half. Railroads crisscross the sheet, a dense network reflecting the state's role as the primary land corridor between two of the country's largest cities, a role that had only intensified since the state's earlier maps in this collection. Rivers, including the Delaware along the state's western border, and coastal features round out the geography. Together the counties, the railroads, and the waterways sketch a state whose 1882 character was defined by its position as a busy corridor rather than a quiet agricultural backwater.
For a New Jersey family with late-19th-century roots, someone who's settled in the state more recently, or a collector building out New Jersey's maps across the decades, this sheet has a specific pull. The store also carries New Jersey from Cram's 1893 and 1883 editions, Bradford's 1838 atlas, and Tanner's earlier 1842 sheet; this 1882 Mitchell sheet is the only one of the group built around fully developed county-level detail from the height of the state's rail-corridor era. It's printed unframed and available in a range of sizes to fit whatever wall it's headed for.
