From the introduction:
”This meticulously documented catalogue offers a visual iconography of the state, beginning with a pre-Revolutionary landscape and ending with a birdseye view of a growing New Jersey city on the eve of the twentieth century. The exhibition and catalog reveal a comprehensive pictorial progression of the Garden State over a 150-year period. The collection is important in part because it amasses a wide variety of graphic material including paintings, prints, drawings, lettersheets, and ephemera. Together these works present visual images that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century residents of New Jersey would have encountered in their day-to-day lives.”