San Pedro, California, 1905 – Antique Wall Map
(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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San Pedro, California, 1905 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's-eye view of San Pedro, Cal
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San Pedro, California, 1905
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San Pedro, California, in 1905 was the working harbor of Los Angeles, a waterfront town of fish canneries, lumber wharves, and a growing shipping trade that had been fighting for decades with the city of Los Angeles over the coastal port. The Los Angeles Harbor was still a shallow, undeveloped anchorage then, and the breakwater and dredging that would make it a major port lay ahead, though the town's rail links to the city and the wider Southern California region were already shaping its growth. Residents in 1905 would have known San Pedro as a fishing and cannery community with a mix of Croatian, Italian, and Japanese families working the boats and docks, a place that had only recently been annexed into Los Angeles in 1909 but was then still its own municipality.
| Created / published | 1905 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of San Pedro, California, drawn in 1905. 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 | 5,220 × 2,458 px · prints to 17 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's-eye view of San Pedro, Cal |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487905 |
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