Sacramento, California, 1890 – 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 Sacramento, California, 1890 brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Sacramento
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Sacramento, California, 1890
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Sacramento in 1890 was the state capital of California and a railroad town, with the Southern Pacific's shops and yards along its edge and the river landing still busy with freight. The city had grown from its gold-rush founding into a place of around 20,000 people, many of them working in rail, milling, and the grain and fruit trade that moved through the valley. The capitol, finished in 1874, anchored the civic life of the downtown grid, where state officials, lawyers, and merchants shared streets with workers headed to the depots. Levees and the threat of winter floods from the Sacramento and American rivers still shaped where people built and how the town was laid out.
| Created / published | 1890 |
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| Creator | w.w. elliott & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Sacramento, California, drawn in 1890. 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 | 11,231 × 7,072 px · prints to 37 × 24 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Sacramento |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487885 |
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