42 Antique Panoramic Maps of New Jersey NJ on CD Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 9.99 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Monday, November 17, 2008 End Time Monday, November 24, 2008 Location Wylie, Texas See more about '42 Antique Panoramic Maps of New Jersey NJ on CD' Description   42 Panoramic Maps of New Jersey on CD The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known also as bird's-eye views, perspective maps, and aero views, panoramic maps are non-photographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings, and major landscape features in perspective.   Hackensack, NJ 1896 Preparation and sale of nineteenth-century panoramas were motivated by civic pride and the desire of the city fathers to encourage commercial growth. Many views were prepared for and endorsed by chambers of commerce and other civic organizations and were used as advertisements of a city's commercial and residential potential. Panoramic maps graphically depict the vibrant life of a city. People and horse drawn carriages fill the streets, and smoke belches from the stacks of industrial plants. Urban and industrial development in post-Civil War America is vividly portrayed in the maps. No other graphic form of this era so effectively captured the vitality of America's urban centers.   Trenton, NJ 1900 at (6X Zoom) Panoramic maps give a pictorial record of America's cities during the post-Civil War period and for many localities provide the sole nineteenth-century map.  In their original paper form, these maps were very large (3 feet X 4 feet, or even larger). The maps are saved in a file format which uses a compression ratio of up to 22:1. These extremely high-resolution maps contain an amazing level of detail and most image viewers are not able to decode this special format, so a special program is required to view and manipulate the images and is included on the CD. This software has an incredibly powerful zoom feature (14 levels) that will allow you to see the entire map, and you can also zoom down to street level. You'll be able to save the maps as a digital image in several different file formats so that you can use them in your personal projects, and you can also print at the magnification level you choose.    Egg Harbor City, NJ 1865 (at 8X Zoom) Many of these maps are true works of art, and are suitable for framing. These gorgeous maps will be particularly useful for family historians who are building a record of their ancestor's lives, or for those who are researching a particular geographic area.  If you're like me and can browse maps for hours, you'll love this CD! The maps included on this CD are: Absecon, NJ 1924   Arlington, NJ 1907   Asbury Park, NJ 1881   Asbury Park, NJ 1910 Asbury Park & Ocean Grove, NJ 1881   Asbury Park & Ocean Grove, NJ 1897   Atlantic City, NJ 1880   Atlantic City, NJ 1900   Atlantic City, NJ 1905   Atlantic City, NJ 1909   Atlantic City, NJ 1910   Atlantic Highlands, NJ   Bridgeton, NJ 1886   Dover, NJ 1903   Egg Harbor City, NJ 1865   Egg Harbor City, NJ 1924   Elizabeth, NJ 1898   Garfield, NJ 1909   Hackensack, NJ 1896   Harrison, East Newark, Kearny, & Arlington, NJ 1907   Hammonton, NJ 1926   Hoboken, NJ 1881   Hoboken, NJ 1903   Maplewood, NJ 1910   Margate, NJ 1925   Morristown, NJ 1899   Newark, NJ 1874   Newark, NJ 1916   Newark, Harrison, & Kearney, NJ 1895   New Brunswick, NJ 1910   Ocean City, NJ 1903   Paterson, NJ 1880   Phillipsburg, NJ and Easton, PA 1900   Plainfield and North Plainfield, NJ 1899   Rutherford, NJ 1904   Somers Point, NJ 1925   Somerville, NJ 1882   Trenton, NJ 1900   Vineland, NJ 1885   Westfield, NJ 1929   Westwood, NJ 1924   Woodbury, NJ 1886       CDs work on both Windows and Mac operating systems. System Requirements  Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista  200MHz PC processor  Minimum of 64 MB RAM  Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0 or Firefox 1.5 or 2.0  System Requirements Apple Mac OS X 10.2 or newer  Minimum of 128 MB RAM  Safari Web Browser  Every CD is carefully packaged for shipping, but we can not be held responsible for rough handling by the postal service. Insurance is optional.  CDs will be immediately replaced if defective upon arrival. Please contact within 7 days of receipt if you experience a problem.    Visit my Ebay store for more historical maps, photos, books on CD and more! Powered by eBay Turbo ListerThe free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!