San Mateo, California, 1905 – 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
A window into the past: San Mateo, California, 1905, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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San Mateo, California, 1905
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San Mateo, California, in 1905 was a small railroad town on the Peninsula, roughly midway between San Francisco and San Jose. Its growth depended on the Southern Pacific line that ran through its center, which carried produce, dairy goods, and flowers to city markets and brought in commuters and summer visitors. Surrounding farms and orchards gave the town its working character, while the nearby Crystal Springs reservoirs supplied water to San Francisco. Residents in 1905 would have known San Mateo as a quiet commuter town that was still tied closely to the farms around it, and few could have guessed how quickly San Francisco's later disasters and growth would reshape the Peninsula.
| Created / published | 1905 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of San Mateo, 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 |
| Original scan | 2,178 × 2,660 px · prints to 7 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487904 |
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