Berkeley, California, 1909 – 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
Few images capture their era like this antique map of Berkeley, California, 1909. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Berkeley
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Berkeley, California, 1909
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Berkeley in 1909 was a university town of roughly 40,000 people, its street grid running from the bay shore up into the Berkeley Hills. The Greek theater, finished in 1903 on the campus slope, and the Hearst Memorial Mining Building, completed in 1907, gave the university a monumental look that drew visitors from Oakland and San Francisco. Most residents earned their living in professional, clerical, and service jobs tied to the campus, while the flatlands held orchards and open fields being cut into lots for new houses. Families there tended to think of Berkeley as a leafy, quiet place to raise children, a short ride from the busier cities around the bay.
| Created / published | 1909 |
|---|---|
| Creator | green, charles |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Berkeley, California, drawn in 1909. 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 | 9,088 × 4,160 px · prints to 30 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Berkeley |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487870 |
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