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This map traveled home with a Wood Brothers Cash Store customer in Unadilla, New York back in 1893, part of a promotional atlas the store commissioned from Chicago cartographer George...

This California map came from George Franklin Cram's 1883 Unrivaled Family Atlas of the World, published in Chicago by A.C. Shewey & Co. as the first mass-produced world atlas of...

This map of California was drawn by G.W. Colton with text by Richard Swainson Fisher and published in 1858 in Colton's Illustrated Cabinet Atlas and Descriptive Geography, a shelf atlas...

George Franklin Cram, working from his Western Map Depot in Chicago, published this Rail Road and Township Map of California in 1878 as one of the individual state sheets bound...

Joseph Hutchins Colton, one of the most prolific American mapmakers of the nineteenth century, issued this map of California with its San Francisco inset in 1855 as part of his...

Charles W. Morse of New York published this map of California, with a large inset of Utah and part of New Mexico, in his General Atlas of the World, issued...

Henry Darwin Rogers and Alexander Keith Johnston issued this State of California sheet in 1857, published in London by Edward Stanford and engraved by W. & A.K. Johnston of Edinburgh,...

This map of California, with its separate inset of the City of San Francisco, was drawn by G.W. Colton and published by J.H. Colton & Co. of New York in...

Charles W. Morse ran his cerographic printing house from New York, and in 1856 his General Atlas of the World, published through Appleton & Company, carried this map of California...

Ruth Taylor White drew this pictorial map of California for Our U.S.A., A Gay Geography, a whimsical cartoon atlas published by Little, Brown, and Company in 1935 with text by...

Britton & Rey, the San Francisco lithographic house founded in 1852 by Joseph Britton and Jacques Joseph Rey, issued this rare third and final edition of George Henry Goddard's foundational...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr., working through Wm. M. Bradley & Bro. of Philadelphia, issued this California sheet in 1884, part of his New General Atlas published in 1886. This printing...

This map of California, with its inset of Utah and part of New Mexico, was compiled by Charles W. Morse and Charles A. Colby and published by D. Appleton &...

Bruno Hassenstein redacted this ethnographic map of California's native tribes for the 1879 volume of Petermanns Geographische Mittheilungen, the foremost German geographical journal of the nineteenth century, founded and edited...

Samuel Augustus Mitchell Jr. issued this first state of his County Map of California in 1860, the same year he inherited his father's Philadelphia publishing house and released the New...

This map of California and Nevada was drawn by Ormando Willis Gray, H.H. Lloyd, and H.F. Walling and published in 1872 by Stedman, Brown & Lyon, bound into the firm's...

H.H. Lloyd's county map of Nevada and California appeared in the early 1870s within atlases published by Warner & Beers, part of the same Atlas of the United States series...

This promotional map of the Sacramento region, titled Golden Empire, was issued around 1947 by the Sacramento Chamber of Commerce and printed by the Spilman Printing Co. of Sacramento. Unlike...

This map of California and Nevada was drawn by H.H. Lloyd and published in 1873 by Stedman, Brown & Lyon of Baltimore, bound into the firm's New Topographical Atlas of...

Asher & Adams, working out of New York, issued this southern California and Nevada sheet in 1874 as part of their New Commercial, Topographical, and Statistical Atlas and Gazetteer of...

S. S. Cornell published this paired map of California and Texas in 1856, an interesting single-sheet combination joining the country's two fastest-growing frontier states, with Oregon included as a smaller...

Capture the history and beauty of Orange County with this detailed vintage pictorial map, a stunning piece of cartographic art that celebrates the rich heritage of this iconic region of...

Transport yourself to the golden era of California tourism with this vibrant and playful illustrated map of Santa Catalina Island. Featuring charming mid-century artwork, this map showcases the island’s major...

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors published this map of the city's Outside Lands in 1868, lithographed by the prominent San Francisco firm of Britton & Rey to show the...

This map of Sacramento was surveyed by J.R. Ray, the city surveyor, in 1873 and published the following year by Stedman, Brown & Lyon of Philadelphia in Gray's Atlas of...

Step into the dynamic beginnings of a major California metropolis with this Oakland City and Surroundings 1888 Poster, where wooden piers and dusty roads shaped the city’s pulse. Dotted lines...

Gerald A. Eddy prepared this map of the Pacific Electric Railway and Motor Transit Company's lines in 1933, published in Los Angeles under copyright secured by D.W. Pontius for the...

C. June Barton and R. Greenway Frager produced this whimsical pictorial map of Venice Beach, California, in 1979 to mark the neighborhood's 75th anniversary, running from its 1905 founding by...

Henry G. Langley compiled this guide map of San Francisco in 1890 from official surveys, engraving it specifically for his own San Francisco Directory, the annual city directory his firm...

Journey back to a transformative era in Southern California’s car culture with this Pasadena and Vicinity Road Map Poster. Early highways twist around the San Gabriel Mountains, linking quiet foothill...

Immerse yourself in the rugged beauty of California’s central coast with this 1932 Monterey Bay map print, a vintage chart that captures the dynamic interplay of coastal cliffs, sheltered coves,...

Gerald A. Eddy, a Los Angeles-based commercial cartographer known for his relief maps and promotional work for western transportation companies, produced this map of the Pacific Electric Railway and Motor...

George F. Cram issued this plan of San Francisco in 1901 across pages 308 and 309 of Cram's Atlas of the World, Ancient and Modern, the same "new census edition"...

This decorative regional map of Texas, California and the Southwest was published in London around 1849 by John Tallis, a Midlands-born map publisher who had relocated to the capital in...

H.H. Lloyd issued this striking map of California and Nevada in 1871, a work that survives today largely because it appeared as a supplement bound into county and state atlases...

John Tallis, celebrated as the last of the great decorative English mapmakers, published this map of Texas, California and Mexico from his London workshop around 1851, giving the sheet the...

Lowell E. Jones published this street map of San Diego in 1935, engraved and printed by the local firm of Frye & Smith, as a stand-alone pictorial guide rather than...

Edmond Guillemin-Tarayre prepared this general map of California and Nevada in 1867, published in Paris in 1871 by France's Commission Scientifique du Mexique as a companion sheet to the same...

Asher & Adams, working out of New York, issued this northern California and Nevada sheet in 1874 as part of their New Commercial, Topographical, and Statistical Atlas and Gazetteer of...

F.T. Newbery prepared this map of the Southern Pacific Railroad and its connections in June 1875, the earliest known map focused specifically on the railroad's general route, published more than...

Charles DeSilver of Philadelphia published this sweeping map of California and the territories of Oregon, Washington, Utah, and New Mexico in 1858, the same firm whose map plates and business...

H.H. Lloyd's map of Nevada and California, published in Chicago by Warner & Higgins in 1870, is the rare first edition of what would become part of Lloyd's Atlas of...

This 1922 map of Baja California, titled Mapa de Baja California, was issued in Chicago by Rand McNally & Company, the firm William Rand founded as a print shop in...

Philadelphia publisher Charles Desilver issued this map of California and the Territories of Oregon, Washington, Utah, and New Mexico in 1859, a document capturing the American West at a moment...

H.A. Candrian, working with B.W. Candrian, published this map of the city and county of San Francisco in 1906, the same year the great earthquake and fire devastated much of...

The French mining engineer Edmond Guillemin-Tarayre compiled this geological map of California and Nevada in 1867, publishing it in Paris in 1871 as one of seventeen plates accompanying a scientific...

Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co. of Philadelphia published this map of California and the Territories of Oregon and Utah in 1853, updating copperplates the firm had purchased in 1850 from Samuel...

Explore the evolving suburban landscape of Greater Los Angeles with this 1932 San Fernando Valley poster, illustrating a pivotal era in Southern California’s expansion. Grid-like streets spread across sunbaked fields...

This historical map of Redondo Beach provides a fascinating view of early urban planning in Los Angeles County, California. Designed with meticulous detail, this chart outlines the city’s development layout,...

Immerse yourself in the lively spirit of 1927 San Francisco with this charming pictorial map, where hilltop neighborhoods, iconic cable cars, and sparkling bay waters unite in a visual celebration....