Los Angeles, California, 1888 – 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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A window into the past: Los Angeles, California, 1888, preserved in this antique map. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Los Angeles, Cal
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Los Angeles, California, 1888
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Los Angeles in 1888 was in the middle of a real estate boom that began in earnest after the Santa Fe Railway reached the city in November 1885, giving it a second transcontinental connection. A fare war among the railroads that winter pushed passenger tickets from the East down to a few dollars, and newcomers arrived by the trainload to buy lots in subdivisions laid out on former ranch land. The population, around 11,000 at the start of the decade, was climbing fast, and new office blocks, hotels and streetcar lines were reshaping the downtown grid shown here. Citrus groves on the edges of town were increasingly sold to eastern buyers, while longtime Mexican-era families and Anglo arrivals shared a town that was changing faster than anyone could easily track.
| Created / published | 1888 |
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| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Los Angeles, California, drawn in 1888. 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 | 10,728 × 6,208 px · prints to 36 × 21 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Los Angeles, Cal |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487877 |
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