Shasta, California, 1856 – 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 Shasta, California, 1856. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Shasta, Shasta County, Cal
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Shasta, California, 1856
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Shasta, California, in 1856 was a gold rush supply town in the hills of northern California, serving the mining camps of the Trinity and Shasta regions. Mule trains and freight wagons moved picks, flour, and mining equipment in and out, and the town was also the seat of Shasta County, so its courthouse and lawyers drew people in from far off. Like many Gold Rush towns, it was built largely of wood and canvas, and fires repeatedly swept its business streets. Residents in the 1850s would have known Shasta as the main trading center of the northern mines, a reputation that later faded once the railroad passed it by for Redding.
| Created / published | 1856 |
|---|---|
| Creator | britton & rey, kuchel & dresel |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Shasta, California, drawn in 1856. 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 | 6,552 × 4,488 px · prints to 22 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Shasta, Shasta County, Cal |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487912 |
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