San Francisco, California, 1851 – 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.)
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San Francisco, California, 1851 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: View of San Francisco, Taken from the Western Hill at the foot of Telegraph Hill, looking toward Ringon Point and Mission Valley
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San Francisco, California, 1851
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San Francisco in 1851 was a crowded port of many thousands, with wharves reaching out over the bay so that ships anchored at the end of long piers could unload goods bound for merchants on the streets along the shore. Trade flowed from the eastern states, Europe, China, and South America, and the gold rush still fed every counting house. That spring and early summer, fires swept through the wooden business district, and many merchants rebuilt in brick. Frustrated by a crime wave and courts that seemed unable to hold criminals, citizens formed a Vigilance Committee in June, which hanged men and drove others from town. Residents knew the city as a place where commerce and lawlessness shared the same streets.
| Created / published | 1851 |
|---|---|
| Creator | sarony & major, casilear, george w., bainbridge, henry |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of San Francisco, California, drawn in 1851. 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 | 10,655 × 7,760 px · prints to 36 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of San Francisco, Taken from the Western Hill at the foot of Telegraph Hill, looking toward Ringon Point and Mission Valley |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487891 |
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