Fresno, California, 1901 – 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
This rare antique map captures Fresno, California, 1901 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Fresno, California 1901
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Fresno, California, 1901
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Fresno, California, in 1901 was a young agricultural town in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley. The Southern Pacific line reached it in 1872, and its depot and freight yards carried grain, fruit, and wine grapes to markets across the state and beyond. Canals drawing water from the region's rivers had turned much of the valley floor into orchards and vineyards, and the raisin trade was becoming the town's signature business. Residents would have known Fresno as the hub of that valley commerce, where the railroad, the packing houses, and the county courthouse shaped daily life.
| Created / published | 1901 |
|---|---|
| Creator | britton & rey, klein, l. w. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Fresno, California, drawn in 1901. 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 | 13,330 × 8,457 px · prints to 44 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Fresno, California 1901 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487872 |
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