San Francisco, California, 1864 – 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.)
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This antique map of San Francisco, California, 1864 brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: San Francisco. Bird's-eye view
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San Francisco, California, 1864
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San Francisco in 1864 was a city of wooden and brick blocks climbing steep hills above the bay, and it looked ahead to a larger future. Work on the Central Pacific Railroad had recently begun in Sacramento, and its promoters hoped to carry rails over the Sierra and make San Francisco the western end of a transcontinental trade. The city's residents also followed the Civil War closely. A Sanitary Fair held there that year raised money for the Union's sick and wounded soldiers, and in November California voted for Abraham Lincoln's reelection. Ships from Pacific Mail and other lines still crowded the waterfront, and merchants counted their profits in a town that had grown well beyond its gold rush beginnings.
| Created / published | 1864 |
|---|---|
| Creator | gifford, charles b. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of San Francisco, California, drawn in 1864. 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 | 12,384 × 8,848 px · prints to 41 × 29 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | San Francisco. Bird's-eye view |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487894 |
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