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"A map of Newark with areas where different nationalities predominate"

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"A map of Newark with areas where different nationalities predominate"

Identifier(s)

p17229coll12_804

Abstract

Note from professor Brendan O'Flaherty: Notice that it has no source; it's just what some church people think is going on. That would be ok if there were no other source of data. But the 1910 census was a pretty good job, and includes both first and second generation. And for the really ambitious, the manuscript census data is available and digitized and somebody could produce a house-by-house map. From the 1910 census, I can see some errors in the beloved 1911 map. The most obvious is in the location of the African American population. It correctly shows large numbers of African Americans in the 2nd and 4th wards, but misses the large numbers in the 3rd and 7th wards, especially. The 7th ward had the second largest number of African Americans in 1910, after the 2nd ward. In the Ironbound, it misses the large Irish population of the 5th ward. It also misses the large Italian populations in the 14th and 10th wards. The Chinese presence is exaggerated in the 4th ward. There were 100 persons who were "Indian Chinese and Japanese" in that ward, slightly less than the number of people born in Scotland. And of course, the map doesn't include Vailsburg. I think Newark was much less segregated than this map indicates, but since the manuscript census is available now, there is no sense speculating about that.

Creator(s) Name

Fox, John P.

Subject(s) - Topics

Chinese
Newark (N.J.)
Maps
New Jersey
Demography
Polish Americans
German Americans
Irish Americans
Italian Americans
African Americans
Jews

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All images from the Newark Public Library collection are copyright © protected and may not be reproduced in any way without permission from the Newark Public Library. Commercial use of images is subject to service fees. We require that all images be credited to the Newark Public Library. Images are available for download in small size / low resolution. For information about reproducing photos or obtaining high resolution tiff files see http://npl.org/copies/.

Form

Maps (documents)

Media Type

image/jp2

Related Item(s) Title

Newark Maps

Series

CFCNJIC Map Collection

Holding Simple Copy Information

NN2.tif

Physical Location Division

Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center

Date Created

1911

Date (Other)

1911

Shelf Locator

Drawer 8

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Newark, NJ 07101-0630
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