Auburn, California, 1887 – 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.)
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Auburn, California, 1887 comes to life in this antique map, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Auburn, Cal
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Auburn, California, 1887
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Auburn, the seat of Placer County in the Sierra Nevada foothills, was a gold rush town by origin, and by 1887 it was adjusting to a leaner economy. Hydraulic mining had built much of the county's wealth in the 1850s and 1860s, but a federal court ruling in 1884 sharply restricted the practice because of the silt it sent into the Sacramento Valley's rivers, and mining families and merchants felt the loss. The railroad had already tied the town to Sacramento and the wider state, and Auburn's courthouse, churches, schools, and commercial blocks gave it a settled, county-centered identity. Residents of the period would have known Auburn as a place where the gold era had passed its peak and farming, fruit, and local trade were gaining ground.
| Created / published | 1887 |
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| Creator | elliott, w. w. (william wallace), cook, c. p. |
| Notes | An original bird's-eye view map of Auburn, California, drawn in 1887. 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 | 9,206 × 6,534 px · prints to 31 × 22 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Auburn, Cal |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-OYK-487868 |
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