CA San Jose 1869 MAP – Antique Wall Map
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique map of CA San Jose 1869 MAP. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
Library of Congress record: Bird's eye view of the city of San José, Cal
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CA San Jose 1869 MAP
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This 1869 bird's-eye view shows San Jose from an elevated angle, so the street grid, rooftops, and surrounding fields appear together in one sweep. San Jose had been California's first state capital in 1850 and 1851, and by the late 1860s it was a growing agricultural and commercial center in the Santa Clara Valley. Panoramic views like this one, drawn by artists such as Louis Nagel and W. Vallance Gray, were popular with town boosters and residents who wanted to see their community as a whole. The map is useful today for studying how the town was laid out and built during its early years as a city.
| Created / published | 1869 |
|---|---|
| Creator | nagel, l. (louis), gray, w. vallance |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Maps |
| Original scan | 5,405 × 3,667 px · prints to 18 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Bird's eye view of the city of San José, Cal |
| Reference | CA-SanJose-1869 |
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