Santa Rosa, California, 1876 – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of Santa Rosa, California, 1876. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Cal., 1876
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Santa Rosa, California, 1876
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Santa Rosa, the county seat of Sonoma County, California, was a farm-service town in 1876, built on the grain fields, orchards, and vineyards of the surrounding valleys. Its growth had followed the arrival of the railroad in 1870, which let growers ship wheat, wine, and fruit to San Francisco and turned the town into a market and trading center for the Russian River country. Civic life centered on the courthouse square, the churches, and the newspaper offices, and residents took pride in the county's wine and produce. Luther Burbank had moved to Santa Rosa only a year earlier, in 1875, and was beginning the plant experiments that would later make him famous. The town of 1876 was a place of wagons, rail sidings, and small commercial blocks, and the map records it as a community that still expected farming to drive its fortunes.
| Created / published | 1876 |
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| Creator | a.l. bancroft & company, evans, william m., glover, e. s. (eli sheldon) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Santa Rosa, California, drawn in 1876. 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 | 8,000 × 5,536 px · prints to 27 × 18 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, Cal., 1876 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487911 |
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