1887 Linen-Backed Original Antique Map of the Bridgeton Area, New Jersey

  
1887 antique map of the Vicinity of Bridgeton, New Jersey, from Alloway, Elmer and Newfield Southward to the Delaware Bay Shore, surveyed by C. Vermeule and printed by Julius Bien & Company. It is backed with linen and edged with fabric. This print is in excellent condition, measures 36 3/4" x 26 3/4" inches and is suitable for framing.

He studied lithography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cassel and at Stadel's Institute in Frankfurt. In 1849, he fled Germany for New York after his involvement in the unsuccessful revolution of 1848.

There, he established a printing business in 1850, experimenting with map-making techniques to improve quality and durability. The quality of his work earned him government contracts for major geographic surveys, and printed several commercial atlases. He created the maps and atlases accompanying the federal census reports from 1870 to 1900, as well as atlases of New York State (1895) and Pennsylvania (1900).

Bien won many awards for his work, and was elected president of the National Lithographers' Association for ten years, from 1886 to 1896. He worked with the United States Geological Survey, and completed the first topographical survey of New jersey. He was a member of the Holland Society of New York, the Sons of the American Revolution, the New Jersey Historical Society and the American Water Works Association.