Panamint, California, 1875 – 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.)
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A window into the past: Panamint, California, 1875, preserved in this antique map. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Panamint, California, 1875
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Panamint, in the Panamint Range of eastern California's Inyo County, was a silver mining camp in 1875, only a couple of years old and at the height of its boom. Prospectors had pushed into the rugged mountains east of Death Valley after silver strikes, and the town grew up around the mines and the stamp mills that crushed their ore. Freight wagons hauled supplies up steep, dusty roads, and the camp's saloons, boardinghouses and assay offices served a population that rose quickly and was mostly male. Residents of the day would have known Panamint as a rough, far-flung camp whose fortunes depended on the richness of its ore veins, a reputation that would fade as the best silver ground played out later in the decade.
| Created / published | 1875 |
|---|---|
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Panamint, California, drawn in 1875. 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 | 9,536 × 4,368 px · prints to 32 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487882 |
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