Map Of San Francisco From the Latest Surveys. Engraved Expressly For The San Francisco Directory. 1873. Lith Britton & Rey. S.F (Raster Image)

Description:

This layer is a georeferenced image of a map from the 1873 San Francisco Directory. A scanned version of this map was georeferenced as part of the Imagined San Francisco project. This project traces the history of urban planning in San Francisco, placing special emphasis on unrealized schemes. Rather than using visual material simply to illustrate outcomes, Imagined San Francisco uses historical plans, maps, architectural renderings, and photographs to show what might have been. By enabling users to layer a series of urban plans, the project presents the city not only as a sequence of material changes, but also as a contingent process and a battleground for political power. Savvy institutional actors--like banks, developers, and many public officials--understood that in some cases to clearly articulate their interests would be to invite challenges. That means that textual sources like newspapers and municipal reports are limited in what they can tell researchers about the shape of political power. Urban plans, however, often speak volumes about interests and dynamics upon which textual sources remain silent. Mortgage lenders, for example, apparently thought it unwise to state that they wished to see a poor neighborhood cleared, to be replaced with a freeway onramp. Yet visual analysis of planning proposals makes that interest plain. So in the process of showing how the city might have looked, Imagined San Francisco also shows how political power actually was negotiated and exercised. Map Of San Francisco From the Latest Surveys. Engraved Expressly For The San Francisco Directory. 1873. Lith Britton & Rey. S.F (Raster Image). (2020). Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/wp123sm9381 This layer is presented in the WGS84 coordinate system for web display purposes. Downloadable data are provided in native coordinate system or projection.

Resource Link:

https://purl.stanford.edu/wp123sm9381

Identifier:

https://purl.stanford.edu/wp123sm9381

Language:

English

Creator:

Langley, Henry G. and Britton & Rey

Publisher:

Stanford University. Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Resource Type:

Digital maps

Subject:

City blocks and Imagery and Base Maps

Temporal Coverage:

1873

Date Issued:

2021

Spatial Coverage:

San Francisco (Calif.)

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

GeoTIFF