SanDiego, California, 1876 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A window into the past: SanDiego, California, 1876, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of San Diego, California 1876
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SanDiego, California, 1876
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San Diego in 1876 was a small Pacific seaport that still looked back to its Spanish and Mexican origins at Old Town, while much of its new commerce had moved down toward the bay under Alonzo Horton's New Town plan. Cattle ranching and the hide and tallow trade gave the local economy its shape, and hides were shipped out through the harbor to buyers along the coast. With a population of only a few thousand, the town had its churches, schools, and stores, and its boosters were already promoting the bay as a future port and rail terminus. Residents knew San Diego as the southern gateway of California, a place where morning fog rolled in off the water and the Mission San Diego de Alcalá stood several miles inland.
| Created / published | 1876 |
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| Creator | a.l. bancroft & company, glover, e. s. (eli sheldon), schneider & kueppers |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of SanDiego, California, drawn in 1876. Bird's-eye view maps were drawn by travelling artists who walked a town street by street, sketching every building from an imagined vantage point in the air, then sold the finished lithograph door to door by subscription. Roughly five thousand American towns were recorded this way between the 1860s and the 1920s, and for many of them the panoramic map is the most complete picture of the place that survives. Reproduced from the original in the Library of Congress collections. Printed to order on archival paper. Free shipping on all US orders. |
| Subjects | Panoramic maps--California |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 8,720 × 6,048 px · prints to 29 × 20 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of San Diego, California 1876 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487906 |
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