Sacramento B, California, 1850 – Vintage Map Wall Art
(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 Sacramento B, California, 1850 in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: View of Sacramento City as it appeared during the great inundation in January 1850
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Sacramento B, California, 1850
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Sacramento, California, in 1850 was a raw river town that had grown almost overnight after gold turned up in the Sierra foothills in 1848. Its site where the Sacramento and American rivers meet made it the supply point for miners heading into the hills, and steamboats and sailing vessels crowded its levee with freight, lumber and passengers. The city was incorporated that year, and merchants, hotelkeepers and saloonkeepers were putting up wooden storefronts on streets that winter rains had turned to mud. Floodwaters from the rivers had already swamped the low ground near the water, a hazard that would shape the town's levee works for years. The town shown here was still rushing to become a permanent city.
| Created / published | 1850 |
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| Creator | sarony, napoleon, casilear, george w., bainbridge, henry |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Sacramento B, California, drawn in 1850. 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 | 11,163 × 7,824 px · prints to 37 × 26 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Sacramento City as it appeared during the great inundation in January 1850 |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487887 |
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