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The Newark Experience

Newark Maps and Atlases: 20th and 21st Centuries

Atlas of the City of Newark, New Jersey: From Official Records, Private Plans and Actual Surveys
Elisha Robinson. New York, E. Robinson, 1901.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLXF G1259 .N5R6 1901
Newark, 1904
From the Old Newark site.
An Examination of Old Maps of Northern New Jersey with Reference to the Identification of the Nutley Area, and Washington's Route Across It, and to the Boundary Dispute Between Newark and Acquackanonk.
Elizabeth Stow Brown. Paterson, N.J., Press Printing and Publishing, 1907.
Map of the City of Newark 1908
Street map, including ward divisions and proposed streets. From the Newark Public Library Digital Collection.
Atlas of City of Newark, New Jersey.
Compiled from actual surveys, official records and private plans by J.M. Lathrop and J.G. Ogden. Philadelphia, Pa. : A.H. Mueller, 1911-1912. 2 volumes.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLXF G1259.N5.L3 1911
Vol. 1 and Vol.2 digitized by the NJIT Library.
New Map of Newark, Harrison, Kearny, Irvington and East Newark
Newark, N.J., Interstate Map Company, 1915.
Newark: Location and Popular Names by Which the Different Sections of the City are Known
1922. Boundaries of various Newark neighborhoods. NPL Digital Collection
Robinson's Atlas of the City of Newark, New Jersey. Compiled From Official Records, Private Plans and Actual Surveys
Elisha Robinson. Newark, N.J., E. Robinson, 1926-1927. 3 vols.
Vol 1: Embracing the section of the City North from Penn. R.R. Market Street and South Orange Avenue to 12th Street to Central Avenue; Vol. 2:Embracing the Section of the City South to Market Street and South Orange Avenue, the Vailsburg Section and West to Broad Street., Poinier Street and Elizabeth Avenue to City Line; Vol. 3: Embracing the Section of the City South and East from Penna. R.R. and Market Street to Broad Street, to Poinier Street, to Elizabeth Avenue thence to City Line.
Detailed maps show buildings, dwellings and businesses, and indicate building materials, ward lines, water pipes, sewers, and paved or unimproved streets.
Dana Call Number: NEWARK G1259 .N5R63 1926
A Sight-seeing Tour of Newark, New Jersey
Under the direction of Ann Milne and Mildred VerSoy Harris. Newark, N.J. : Francis H. Budd & Co., 1933.
Publication of students of Franklin Academy.
Special Collections Call Number: SNCLY F144.N5S545 1933
Map of the City of Newark Showing Building Zones 1940
Residential, business, and industrial zones. From the NPL Digital Collection.
Newark, 1944
Ward map.
The City of Newark, New Jersey 1956
Street map.
Central Newark Area Study: Base Map with Lot Lines and Building Outlines
Victor Gruen. 1959
Boundary Map of Newark Colleges Expansion Project [2/27/1961]
Map of area cleared for expansion of Rutgers Newark and NJIT. From the Newark Public Library Digital Collection.
Downtown Newark, 1966
Includes the "new" Rutgers-Newark site as well as the "old" location at Fulton and Rector streets. From the Old Newark site.
1967 U.S. Geological Survey Map of the Elizabeth Quadrangle (includes Newark)
Place cursor anywhere on map and click on the zoom icon in lower right to open map to full size.

1967 Essex County Road Map

Newark Central City Area Study 1968 Map
1993 Newark Map
Map of the City of Newark 2000
With neighborhood (e.g., "University Heights;" "Lower Clinton Hill") names. NPL Digital Collection
Map of the City of Newark 2007
NPL Digital Collection
Official Ward Maps, 2011-2012
Ward & Election District Map: City of Newark, Essex County, N.J.
January 12, 2022

Redlining

Urban Renewal - Newark, New Jersey, 1957.
"Redlining map of Newark, indicating most desirable loan areas in green (predominantly white a Jewish) a areas of city whose residents should be refused mortgage (predominantly black). Map also indicates corresponding areas of city slated for urban renewal a areas containing the greatest numbers of factories."
Urban Renewal -Newark, New Jersey, October 1959
"Redlining map of Newark, indicating areas to be cleared of ALL residents and homes, areas to be 'rehabilitated' and areas to be 'conserved.'"
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