CA San Francisco 1847 MAP – 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
This rare antique map captures CA San Francisco 1847 MAP in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: View of San Francisco, formerly Yerba Buena, in 1846-7 before the discovery of gold
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CA San Francisco 1847 MAP
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A plan of San Francisco as it was laid out in 1847, when the town was still small and its streets existed largely on paper. Surveyor Jasper O'Farrell drew the town's street grid that year, and its numbered and lettered streets, cut diagonally by Market Street, shaped the city's growth for decades. The record credits the Bosqui engraving and printing firm, so this sheet is a later reproduction of that early survey. Worth noticing is how the grid runs over the hills without regard to their slopes, a choice later generations spent considerable effort working around.
| Created / published | 1847 |
|---|---|
| Creator | bosqui eng. & print. co |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 4,546 × 3,707 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of San Francisco, formerly Yerba Buena, in 1846-7 before the discovery of gold |
| Reference | CA-SanFrancisco-1847 |
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