San Francisco, California, 1878 – Antique Map Print
(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, 1878 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: The city of San Francisco. Birds eye view from the bay looking south-west
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San Francisco, California, 1878
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San Francisco in 1878 was a port of more than 200,000 people, and its waterfront still handled the grain, lumber, wool, and manufactured goods that moved through the bay. That summer, voters elected delegates to a convention in Sacramento to rewrite the state constitution, and the Workingmen's Party, the movement that had grown out of Denis Kearney's sandlot rallies, won a substantial share of the seats. Their demands centered on restricting Chinese labor, and the convention's debates over immigration sharpened tensions in a city where many Chinese residents worked in the shops, laundries, and cigar factories. Merchants, bankers, and shipping men watched these politics with unease, since a hostile constitution could affect their trade. The city's residents knew the decade as one of labor agitation layered over a booming commercial economy.
| Created / published | 1878 |
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| Creator | currier & ives, parsons, charles r. (charles richard) |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of San Francisco, California, drawn in 1878. 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 | 11,376 × 8,237 px · prints to 38 × 27 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The city of San Francisco. Birds eye view from the bay looking south-west |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487898 |
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