View of Sacramento City as it appeared during the great inundation in January 1850 – 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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Step back in time with View of Sacramento City as it appeared during the great inundation in January 1850, an antique map rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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View of Sacramento City as it appeared during the great inundation in January 1850
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Sacramento's streets are shown underwater in this view of the city during the flooding of January 1850, when the rivers rose over the low ground where the town sat at the meeting of the Sacramento and American rivers. The city had been built quickly during the Gold Rush, and its position on flat, poorly drained land left it vulnerable to repeated floods. The record credits Napoleon Sarony, George W. Casilear, and Henry Bainbridge with the image, which places the flood in a panoramic format that let viewers take in the whole waterlogged town at once.
| Created / published | 1850 |
|---|---|
| Creator | sarony, napoleon, casilear, george w., bainbridge, henry |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 5,582 × 3,912 px · prints to 19 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | View of Sacramento City as it appeared during the great inundation in January 1850 |
| Reference | CA-SacramentoFloodB-1850 |
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