SanDiego, California, 1880 – Antique Wall Map
(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: SanDiego, California, 1880, preserved in this antique map. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of Coronado Beach, San Diego Bay and city of San Diego, Cal. in distance
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SanDiego, California, 1880
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In 1880 San Diego was a town of about 2,600 people, most of them packed into the grid of streets Alonzo Horton had laid out near the bay, which had by then overtaken the old Spanish plaza as the center of business. The Santa Fe line that would finally bring a railroad to the city was still years away, so freight and passengers came by sea and by wagon road, and the harbor was the town's main link to the outside world. Lumber, supplies, and goods arrived by ship, while the surrounding valleys shipped grain and livestock out through the port. Residents knew the place as a small, fast-growing city of wooden storefronts and churches, where a new courthouse and schools gave civic life a visible shape and a growing Chinese community worked in laundries, shops, and labor along the waterfront.
| Created / published | 1880 |
|---|---|
| Creator | moore, e. s. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of SanDiego, California, drawn in 1880. 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 | 8,208 × 6,320 px · prints to 27 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of Coronado Beach, San Diego Bay and city of San Diego, Cal. in distance |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487907 |
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