San Gabriel, California, 1893 – Antique Map Print
(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 rare antique map captures San Gabriel, California, 1893 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: View of San Gabriel, Cal
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San Gabriel, California, 1893
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San Gabriel, California, in 1893 was a small valley town about ten miles east of Los Angeles, and its identity still rested on the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, founded by Franciscan friars in 1771. The mission church and its grounds remained the town's most familiar landmark. The land boom of the 1880s had drawn settlers from the Midwest and East, and by the early 1890s orange and lemon groves covered much of the valley floor, with fruit shipped by rail to distant markets. Residents knew San Gabriel as a quiet farming community closely tied to Los Angeles, growing on the strength of the citrus trade and newcomers seeking mild winters and irrigated land.
| Created / published | 1893 |
|---|---|
| Creator | morse, d. d. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of San Gabriel, California, drawn in 1893. 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 | 6,600 × 4,272 px · prints to 22 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of San Gabriel, Cal |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487899 |
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