Los Angeles, California, 1894 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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 Los Angeles, California, 1894 in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Los Angeles, California, 1894
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In 1894 Los Angeles was still digesting the Panic of 1893, a nationwide financial collapse that stalled the building and land speculation that had driven the city's growth since the late 1880s. Banks and merchants were cautious, and many of the lots platted on former ranch land sat unsold while the city's population, by then well past 50,000, settled into a slower pace. Civic life centered on the downtown streets this map records, where county offices, newspapers and the city council argued over water, streets and transit. A bitter rivalry over whether Santa Monica or San Pedro should become the region's deep-water harbor also shaped local politics, since residents understood that the port would decide how far the city's trade could reach.
| Created / published | 1894 |
|---|---|
| Creator | semi-tropic homestead co, pierce, b. w. (bruce wellington) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Los Angeles, California, drawn in 1894. 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 | 13,420 × 9,529 px · prints to 45 × 32 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Los Angeles, California, 1894 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487879 |
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