What Did Jersey City Used to Look Like?

Have you ever been curious about how Jersey City used to look?  Here are a few neat photos from Jersey City's past in the Prints and Photographs Catalog at the Library of Congress:

View to the Southwest - Colgate & Company Jersey City Plant from the Library of Congress

Jersey City 1939 from the Library of Congress

Buildings at 352-58 Montgomery (Montgomery St & Monmouth St) from the Library of Congress

Interested in seeing more?  There are some amazing collections of old images of Jersey City that you can see online.  Check out these links:

Historic Jersey City: Then and Now

Very extensive site that lets you see side-by-side images of Jersey City then and now.  Be sure to take a look at the old photo of City Hall, before the copulas were taken down.  Also, this building at the corner of Barrow St and Wayne St is almost unrecognizable.

Jersey City Past and Present: A Digital Project of New Jersey City University (NJCU)

Comprehensive guide to the history of Jersey City, including many great old photographs and postcards.  Take a look at the history of the high traffic Grove St and Newark Ave intersection where the Grove PATH station is.  Also check out this illustration of the street where the Van Vorst Homestead stood, at the corner of 4th Street and Marin Blvd, long before ShopRite and BJ's Wholesale Club!

wavz13's Vintage Jersey City Set on Flickr

A terrific collection of old photos of Jersey City.  See if you can recognize these familiar spots:

• Newark Ave and Grove Street in 1922
• Washington Street in Paulus Hook in 1919
• Exchange Place in 1976
• Southern end of Greene Street in 1975

Old Postcards

Not from any one particular collection, but interesting nonetheless:

• Van Vorst Park (date?)
• 1908 Van Vorst Park
• 1901 Van Vorst Park
• 1930s Journal Square