San Francisco
Greatest view of San Francisco.
Birdseye View of San Francisco and Surrounding Country.
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This is George Henry Goddard's stunning chromolithograph bird's-eye view of San Francisco Bay, city, and environs, here in its 1880 edition. A product of Goddard's artistic virtuosity, this is not only the best early view of the San Francisco Bay area but also one of the finest American views ever made, offering a unique and outstanding artistic take on the genre. (more details)
The end of an era.
This is a 1985 view of the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco, produced by artist Graham Bruce. It combines elements of a conventional pictorial map of the period (advertisements for local businesses) with a more ethereal aesthetic, celebrating the nightlife of this 'mecca' of LGBTQ culture. However, the view was also produced in the most frightening period of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in San Francisco's gay community, and may have been intended as an elegy for both the people who had died and the culture of gay liberation that was imperiled by the epidemic. (more details)
Panorama of San Francisco's Ruins by Pioneer of Aerial Photography.
Birds-Eye View of Ruins of San Francisco from Captive Airship 600 Feet above Folsom between Fifth and Sixth Sts.
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This is George R. Lawrence's stunning bird's eye view panoramic photograph of San Francisco in the wake of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. Taken less than three weeks after the event, the image captures the horrific devastation which left most of the city in ruins. (more details)
Modernist Meditation on the California Gold Rush.
[The Gold Fields.]
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An extraordinary find, this is a c. 1933 proof print of esteemed California artist Paul Landacre's work 'The Gold Fields,' a woodcut pictorial map depicting the San Francisco Bay Area and the Sierra Nevada foothills, which were the center of the California Gold Rush. The work is indicative of Landacre's distinctive style, which helped to define the mid-century California Modernist artistic movement. (more details)
'A city undaunted by tragedy, audaciously innovative, rising to meet the challenges of the day.'
'Undaunted'.
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This is a rare 1911 Britton and Rey chromolithograph view of San Francisco, issued to promote the city's resurgent spirit following the 1906 San Francisco Fire. A titanic grizzly bear represents the spirit of San Francisco, 'a city undaunted by tragedy, audaciously innovative, rising to meet the challenges of the day.' (more details)
A Panorama of San Francisco's LGBTQ Community in the Late 1980s.
This is a 1989 promotional pictorial view of San Francisco drawn by Rob Zell-Breier for City Graphics. It adopts an unusual motif for a promotional map, presenting the city as a fantastical land of Oz, with a strong emphasis on local businesses related to the city's LGBTQ community. (more details)
The Gold Rush in San Francisco.
San Francisco in July 1849 from Present Site of S.F. Stock Exchange.
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A fine 1894 chromolithograph George Henry Burgess view of San Francisco depicting the city in 1849, at the height of the California Gold Rush. Burgess drew this view based on sketches drawn from life in 1849, shortly after his arrival in San Francisco. He compiled these into a painting in 1891. It was transferred to lithographic stone, as here, in 1894. The view looks westward along Montgomery Street with Telegraph Hill prominent in the distance. A temporary camp of newly arrived 49ers fills the foreground, with two mounted Californios riding out of town at left. New construction and warehouses occupy the center, with the busy harbor at right bringing in waves of 49ers. This is essentially today's Financial District. There is a key to the map in the lower left, identifying all prominent locations throughout the growing city. (more details)
First sight of the Pacific on the Central Pacific.
Through to the Pacific.
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This is an 1870 Currier and Ives lithograph celebrating the arrival of the Central Pacific Railroad on the West Coast - San Francisco is in the background. This is one of Currier and Ives' most iconic small-format views. (more details)
Mainstay of the Chicano Movement.
This is a c. 1979 Rodolfo Cuellar stylized representation of Northern California, produced for a Cinco de Mayo celebration at California State University, Sacramento (Cal State Sacramento or CSUS for short). In the 1970s, the campus became a center of Chicano activism, closely connected with the United Farm Workers (UFW) movement, led by Caesar Chavez. (more details)
First English reconnaissance of Spanish settlement in California.
Cote Nord-Ouest de L'Amerique Reconnue par le Cape. Vancouver. 1e Partie.
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One of the great navigator George Vancouver's most important and influential maps, this is his 1799 charting of the California coastline roughly from Santo Domingo, Mexico, to San Francisco Bay. Vancouver's exploration of the California coastline was significant, breaking the Spanish wall of silence and producing the first English reconnaissance on Spanish settlement and colonization of the West Coast. Vancouver's mapping of California generated the finest coastal chart of the region to date. (more details)
Gilded Age's Great Western Metropolis.
Faust's Map of City and County of San Francisco California.
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This is Henry W. Faust's 1892 map of San Francisco, California, demonstrating the growth and planned future expansion of America's western metropolis. (more details)
San Francisco in the early days of the gold rush.
Vue de San Francisco.
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This is a rare c. 1854 Louis Le Breton view of San Francisco in its early days as an American city. It depicts the settlement in the immediate wake of the California Gold Rush, as its population was rapidly increasing, attracting migrants from throughout the United States and the across the world. (more details)
Scarce of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park including the Avenue and Buena Vista Park.
Map showing the Golden Gate Park The Avenue and Buena Vista Park.
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A rare sprawling map of San Francisco's Golden Gate Park issued in 1903. The map Golden Gate Park in full as well as The Avenue, today called 'The Panhandle' and nearby Buena Vista Park. San Franciscans began to recognize the need for a public recreation area to rival New York City's Central Park in the late 1860s. However, plans for Golden Gate Park did not get underway until the early 1870s. This is the earliest map we are aware of to illustrate the full park. (more details)
Navigating the Bay.
San Francisco Entrance California.
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This is a 1903 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey nautical chart or map of San Francisco Bay, California. (more details)
California's Other Tinseltown.
A scarce 1994 pictorial promotional map of the San Francisco Bay Area, produced by Bayside Promotions. It highlights businesses related to the region's often-underappreciated film industry. (more details)
The Best Laid Plans...
System Of Sewerage for the City and County of San Francisco.
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This is a scarce 1899 map of a planned but never-realized sewer system for the city (and county) of San Francisco, printed by Britton and Rey. Aside from its representation of the planned sewer system, the map is also significant for representing similar planned but only partly realized street layouts in newly-developing areas in the western and southern parts of the city. (more details)
Bay Area Bioregionalism.
A colorful view of the bioregion of San Francisco Bay, prepared in 1977 by the environmental activist organization Frisco Bay Mussel Group as a supplement to their publication Living Here. (more details)
Bold Venture by a Disastrous Real Estate Man.
Map of Sutro Heights Lots for Sale by Will E. Fisher and Co. Agents.
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This is an elegant 1893 lithograph map of the Vista Del Mar neighborhood of San Francisco - at that time promoted as Sutro Heights. The lots for sale on this map fall between what is now Geary Boulevard and Fulton Street, west of the Richmond district. (more details)
San Francisco's Response to Steinberg.
This is James McCaffry's 1978 large-format pictorial bird's-eye view of the United States (and beyond), viewed from downtown San Francisco. It is a direct response to Saul Steinberg's iconic illustration, 'The World from 9th Avenue,' which appeared on a 1976 cover of The New Yorker. (more details)
Subrban Park in the Berkeley Hills
Northbrae Properties...
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This is a c. 1909 Mason-McDuffie cadastral planning map of the Northbrae development, Berkeley, California. It presents an early view of the still-unfinished community, an archetypal suburb born in the wake of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. (more details)
One of America's great urban parks.
This is a lovely 1965 Rosemary West bird’s eye view of Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. It was published by the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau on the eve of the explosion of the hippie movement, in which the park itself played an important role. (more details)
By the Architect of Modern San Francisco.
Map of the City and County of San Francisco.
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An example of M. M. O'Shaugnessy's 1923 urban planning map of San Francisco. It highlights the various types and quality of road surfaces throughout the city, while also demonstrating the uncertain future of certain neighborhoods in the quickly growing city. (more details)
Early Days of Interstate 80.
San Francisco via Reno to Chicago / Direct Routes to Reno - 'Fun Center of the West'.
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A whimsical two-sided pictorial strip map of highway routes between San Francisco and Chicago drawn by Gerald Eddy in 1961 for Harold's Club casino in Reno. Among other features, it is notable for showcasing Interstate 80, only designated five years prior. It is part of series of similar strip map issued by Eddy for Herod's Club, but by far the rarest. (more details)
The Panama-Pacific Exposition.
Map of The City and County of San Francisco.
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This is a 1915 J. Munsell Chase city plan or map of San Francisco, California, published as a guide during the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. The fairgrounds near the Presidio are highlighted in red, as are major streets. City parks (including Golden Gate Park), squares, and cemeteries are shaded green. San Francisco's many piers are identified as well. (more details)
Bay Area in the Early Postwar Period.
[Cover] Thomas Bros. Street Map San Francisco Oakland including Berkeley-Alameda San Leandro-Piedmont Albany-Emeryville.
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An impressively c. 1945 large-format Thomas Brothers indexed folding map of San Francisco. The verso includes an equally comprehensive map of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, and other East Bay cities. Together, they reflect the development and integration of the Bay Area in the years before, during, and after World War II (1939 - 1945). (more details)
Early Days of Silicon Valley.
Map of Palo Alto and Vicinity Compiled from Official Records of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties.
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A detailed c. 1953 city plan or map of Palo Alto and surrounding communities, including Stanford, Los Altos, Atherton, and Menlo Park. It was prepared by C. E. Hunt and printed by Slonaker's Printing House for the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce. (more details)
Development and Growth in the East Bay.
Bekins Van and Storage Co.'s Map of Oakland, Piedmont, Berkley and Alameda.
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A scarce indexed street plan or map of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, and other communities in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, produced c. 1920 by Bekins Van and Storage Company. (more details)
Bay Area near the End of World War II.
Thomas Bros. Street Map San Francisco, Oakland, including Berkeley-Alameda, San Leandro-Piedmont, Albany-Emeryville.
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An impressively detailed c. 1945 large-format indexed folding map of San Francisco by Thomas Bros. The verso includes an equally comprehensive map of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, and other East Bay cities. Together, they reflect the development and integration of the Bay Area in the years before, during, and after World War II. (more details)
Celebrating the revival of San Francisco in 1912 and the First Saving Building in 1968.
An extraordinary 1968 / 1912 bird's-eye view perspective view and map of San Francisco, risen from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake and fire, ready to retake the world stage by hosting of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. This view was originally published in 1912, with the present example being a much reduced 198 restrike. (more details)
The day the Wallaroo ran amok.
A 1963 manuscript map produced by the San Francisco Examiner staff in preparation for publication, chronicling the strange case of Weldon the Wallaroo, an escapee from the San Francisco Zoo. (more details)
San Francisco in the Wake of the Gold Rush.
Old San Francisco.
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This is a c. 1935 historical pictorial map of downtown San Francisco, prepared by Wells Fargo Bank. It includes multiple references to sites and events from the city's early history. (more details)
Stomping Grounds of the Sea Wolf.
Internationally Famous Jack London District.
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This is a 1952 Alva 'Ted' Hubbard pictorial view of the Jack London District (Jack London Square), Oakland, California. Created to mark the dedication of the district, the view documents the area's vibrancy and diversity amidst a landscape of warehouses. (more details)