(NEW JERSEY - RUTGERS UNIVERSITY.) John Henry Bufford. View of the City of New Brunswick, N.J. Taken from the Rail Road Hotel at East Brunswick. Large lithographed view of New Brunswick on the southern bank of the Raritan River with a 7-point reference key below the image. 17½x24 inches sheet size, wide margins; expertly conserved. New York, circa 1838-1840 Fine scenic panorama of New Brunswick, New Jersey, illustrating the town at a crossroads of pastoral charm and industrial innovation. In the foreground a well-dressed party rests for a moment on a fallen tree trunk as a hunter fires his rifle at birds along the river; meanwhile a passenger locomotive steams across the newly built railroad bridge, a New York City steamboat is visible in the distance of the river, and mill works appear on the lower right waterfront. Old Queens, a relatively new building at the time, stands prominently as the symbol of Rutgers [College].
An early independent publication by prolific nineteenth-century American lithographer J.H. Bufford; we find only a single example in bibliographic databases (Rutgers Special Collections Library). Reps 2367.