San Jacinto, California, 1886 – Historic Map Reproduction
(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
San Jacinto, California, 1886 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: The town of San Jacinto is in great San Jacinto Valley, San Diego Co., Cal., twelve miles south of Beaumont (formerly San Gorgonio) on Southern Pacific R.R., and sixteen miles east of Perris, on the California Southern R.R.
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San Jacinto, California, 1886
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San Jacinto, a small farming town in the San Jacinto Valley, sat within San Bernardino County when this bird's-eye view was drawn in 1886, decades before Riverside County was carved out of it in 1893. The surrounding land supported grain fields, orchards, and stock ranges, and local farmers depended on irrigation from the valley's water sources. The mid-1880s brought a land boom to Southern California, as railroad companies and promoters advertised cheap lots and new colonies across the region, and valley towns were pulled into that rush of surveying and sales. Residents would have known San Jacinto as a market and shipping point for the farms around it, a place where the promise of quick growth meant hard work on ditches, wells, and town lots.
| Created / published | 1886 |
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| Creator | moore, e. s. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of San Jacinto, California, drawn in 1886. 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 | 8,368 × 6,160 px · prints to 28 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The town of San Jacinto is in great San Jacinto Valley, San Diego Co., Cal., twelve miles south of Beaumont (formerly San Gorgonio) on Southern Pacific R.R., and sixteen miles east of Perris, on the California Southern R.R. |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487900 |
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