San Francisco, California, 1876 – 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.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique map of San Francisco, California, 1876. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Birdseye view of San Francisco and surrounding country
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San Francisco, California, 1876
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San Francisco in 1876 was a city that had grown past 150,000 people since the 1870 census, with its docks at the foot of Market Street busy with ferries that carried railroad passengers across the bay from Oakland. The Central Pacific's transcontinental line had made the port a link to eastern markets, and the wharves, flour mills, and foundries along the waterfront served that trade. Adolph Sutro's long drainage tunnel was pushing beneath Nevada's Comstock Lode, a project that tied San Francisco's fortunes to the mines. Cable cars had begun climbing the city's steepest streets, and the younger neighborhoods south and west of downtown were filling with new houses. In the summer of 1876, news of the nation's centennial and of the Army's defeat at the Little Bighorn reached the city's newspapers within days.
| Created / published | 1876 |
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| Creator | goddard, g. h., britton, rey & co |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of San Francisco, California, drawn in 1876. 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 | 9,869 × 6,646 px · prints to 33 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Birdseye view of San Francisco and surrounding country |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487897 |
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