San Francisco, California, 1868 – 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.)
Description
This rare antique map captures San Francisco, California, 1868 in remarkable detail. 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 San Francisco]
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San Francisco, California, 1868
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San Francisco in 1868 was a port of roughly 150,000 people, and its wharves and warehouses handled lumber, grain, wool, and goods shipped from across the Pacific. Chinese laborers, many of whom had come for the gold rush and then stayed to work on the railroads and in the factories, formed a large share of the workforce. That summer in Washington, the Burlingame Treaty with China was signed, affirming the right of Chinese subjects to emigrate to the United States. In October, an earthquake from the Hayward fault shook the city and cracked brick walls and chimneys, a reminder of how unsettled the ground beneath the town was. Residents were also watching the Central Pacific Railroad climb into the Sierra, a project that would soon tie the city to the rest of the continent.
| Created / published | 1868 |
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| Creator | britton & rey, goddard, g. h., snow & may |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of San Francisco, California, drawn in 1868. 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 | 12,801 × 8,086 px · prints to 43 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | [Bird's eye view of San Francisco] |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487895 |
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