Maps of San Francisco
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[Photographs of early San Francisco]
Incredible photographs from the early days of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Carleton E. WatkinsPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1862$8,500 Add to cart -
San Francisco Water Front prior to April 1851.
The “Forest of Masts” Panorama — The Earliest Known Photograph of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Martin BehrmanPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1910$8,500 Add to cart -
San Francisco, to-day, as viewed from Rincon Hill, showing the remarkable results accomplished since the Great Fire of April 1906
An important panorama of post-1906 San Francisco, captured by one of the most iconic photographers of the American West.
Cartographer(s): H.C. TibbittsPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1908$875 Add to cart -
Bird’s Eye View of the City & County of San Francisco, 1868.
A spectacular and rare First Edition of the most iconic late 19th-century view of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / [First Edition] 1868$24,500 Add to cart -
San-Francisco, Vue prise d’un point elevé du côté Sud
An Exceedingly Rare Early Gold Rush View of San Francisco. One of Three Known Examples in Full Original Hand Color, Finished With Gouache.
Cartographer(s): Louis Le BretonPlace/Date: Paris / ca. 1850$8,500 Add to cart -
[1906 EARTHQUAKE PANORAMA – CITY HALL]
A Pillsbury Picture Company panorama highlighting the 1906 destruction of San Francisco’s City Hall.
Cartographer(s): Pillsbury Picture Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1906$1,200 Add to cart -
[SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE PHOTO ALBUM]
A dramatic collection of photographs taken during and just after the devastating events of April 18, 1906.
Cartographer(s): W. J. StreetPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1906$7,500 Add to cart -
Map no. 3. Salt marsh and tide lands situate in the city and county of San Francisco. To be sold at public auction by order of the Board of Tide Land Commissioners by Talbert & Leet, auctioneers, at their sales rooms no. 526 California Street, San Francisco. Sale to commence Friday Nov. 26th, 1869.
Rare cadastral and Southern Pacific Railroad right-of-way tidal lands map of Mission Bay.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1869$3,400 Add to cart -
U.S. Coast Survey A.D. Bache, Superintendent, City Of San Francisco And Its Vicinity California. From a Trigonometrical Survey by R.D. Cutts, Assistant…
1853 United States Coast Survey steel-engraved master sheet map of the San Francisco Peninsula.
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1853$2,500 Add to cart -
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of April 18, 1906 and their effects on structures and structural materials
U.S. Government report on the 1906 earthquake, including two folding maps and a panoramic view of a city destroyed.
Cartographer(s): Government Printing OfficePlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1906$875 Add to cart -
Official Map Of The City Of San Francisco, California. Published by Josiah J. LeCount…Approved By Geo. R. Turner City & County Surveyor
The definitive Silver Rush plan of a new and expanded San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1859$12,500 Add to cart -
The Tables Turned – “You Sabe Him? Kealney Must Go!”
Political satire from one of San Francisco’s first antiquarian booksellers.
Cartographer(s): Isidor Nathan ChoynskiPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1879$575 Add to cart -
San Francisco’s Urban Water Cycle
Phil Frank’s depiction of San Francisco’s unseen water management system.
Cartographer(s): Phil FrankPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1995$475 Add to cart -
Trans-Bay Tube Study General Plan Location no. 12
The first tube across San Francisco Bay?
Cartographer(s): State of California Department of Public WorksPlace/Date: Not listed / 1946$550 Add to cart -
Bancroft’s Official Guide Map Of City And County Of San Francisco…1873.
Bancroft’s iconic 1873 Blue-Line Map of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): The Bancroft CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1873$2,600 Add to cart -
San Francisco Oz by the Bay
Zell-Breier’s whimsical pictorial map of San Francisco in the 1980s.
Place/Date: Fremont / 1989$2,400 Add to cart -
The Castro, San Francisco
A rare poster map of unknown origin depicting San Francisco’s iconic Castro District in the mid-1980s.
Cartographer(s): Graham BrucePlace/Date: San Francisco / 1985$1,600 Add to cart -
Past & Present of California.
The elusive ‘Elephant’ pictorial letter sheet of life in California.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1855$2,200 Add to cart -
The Golden Gate
Possibly the first American view of The Golden Gate ever produced.
Cartographer(s): Thomas & Samuel HardgrovePlace/Date: New York / 1855$1,000 Add to cart -
Holbrook Merrill & Stetson, Stoves, Metals Etc. Cor. of Market & Beale Sts. San Francisco.
A large circa 1881 Bosqui lithograph of an important San Francisco architectural landmark.
Cartographer(s): Bosqui Eng. Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1878$1,200 Add to cart -
Map Showing Golden Gate Park, the Avenue and Buena Vista Park. Scale 400 ft. to 1 inch.
This lovely early example of Britton & Rey’s iconic plan of Golden Gate Park is an anchor of San Franciscan identity: It speaks to us about origins and progress, urban renewal and civil rights, and is ultimately a testimony to the city’s grand but turbulent history.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1893$900 Add to cart -
Map of the Outside Lands of the City and County of San Francisco Showing Reservations Selected for Public Purposes, under the Provisions of Order No. 800
Mapping the Outside Lands – a foundational map for the history of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1868$3,800 Add to cart -
Map of Sutro Heights Lots for Sale by Will E. Fisher and Co. Agents.
An 1893 commercial broadsheet for the real estate development at Sutro Heights – the site of San Francisco landmarks like the Sutro Baths and Cliff House.
Cartographer(s): Bosqui Eng. Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1893$650 Add to cart -
Slavonic Bay
Celebrating San Francisco’s Slavic Communities during the 1915 Expo.
Cartographer(s): Cardinell-Vincent Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1915$2,200 Add to cart -
5-sheet set showing San Francisco’s post-1906 earthquake water supply [SF’s first fireboat!]
Four technical maps focussing on urban infrastructure and water supply and one engineering blueprint for a new fireboat, together reflecting San Francisco’s coordinated response to the devastation of the 1906 earthquake. With an interesting provenance.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1908$8,500 Add to cart
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Mission Dolores, San Francisco – 1860, from the Potrero Nuevo
The first printed view of San Francisco’s Mission District.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1866Read more -
Earthquake in California, April 18, 1906; Special Report of Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. Greely
The official U.S. Army report on the San Francisco earthquake with a large folding map of the destroyed cityscape.
Cartographer(s): Maj. Gen. Adolphus W. GreelyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1906Read more -
Plan of Port St. Francisco in California.
The world’s first detailed look at San Francisco.
Place/Date: London / 1798Read more -
Lone Mountain Cemetery, San Francisco.
A true San Francisco rarity: Gifford and Nagel’s early view of Lone Mountain and the ‘Outside Lands.’
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1866Read more -
A Report to the City Planning Commission on a Transportation Plan for San Francisco – November 1948
A largely unrealized proposal for highways through San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1948Read more -
[Group of 7] Panoramic views of the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
A set of seven panoramic views of San Francisco showing the utter destruction left by the 1906 earthquake.
Cartographer(s): San Francisco ExaminerPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1906Read more -
[With Municipal Report] Montgomery Avenue: Showing the land condemned, buildings destroyed, frontage on each block, profile of grade, and district to be assessed.
The changing face of a growing city: the creation map for Columbus Avenue, bound in its original municipal report.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1872Read more -
Hetch Hetchy Water System.
Cartoonist Phil Frank’s rendition of the Hetch Hetchy System that supplies the residents of San Francisco with fresh drinking water.
Cartographer(s): Phil FrankPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1995Read more -
Official Map of Chinatown in San Francisco.
One of the great thematic maps of a 19th-century American city.
Cartographer(s): B. Farwell, John E. Kunklet, E. B. Pond; A.L. Bancroft & Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1885Read more -
View of San Francisco, Formerly Yerba Buena, In 1846-7 Before the Discovery of Gold
San Francisco Before Gold: the town of Yerba Buena as it appeared in March 1847, shortly after its capture by the U.S.S. Portsmouth.
Cartographer(s): Bosqui Eng. Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1884Read more -
The only correct & fully complete map of San Francisco
1853 Zakreski San Francisco letter sheet map with personal notes.
Cartographer(s): Alexander ZakreskiPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1853Read more -
Tails of the City Alligator Oz The land of Make-Believe.
Henley’s revolutionary 1976 thematic map of homosexual San Francisco — a testament to the city’s progressive track record for tolerance and inclusion.
Cartographer(s): J Clark HenleyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1976Read more -
Map Showing Property of South San Francisco Land and Improvement Co at South San Francisco, San Mateo County, California
A large-format urban plan of South San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1907Read more -
Presidio of San Francisco. Established 1776 A.D.
1955 Ted Hubbard map of the Presidio of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Alva "Ted" Hubbard (Hubbard Advertising Agency)Place/Date: Oakland / 1955Read more -
Faust’s Map of the City and County of San Francisco, California
Faust’s late-19th century map of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1890Read more -
Report on a plan for San Francisco by Daniel H. Burnham. Assisted by Edward H. Bennett. Presented to the Mayor and Board of Supervisors by the Association for the Improvement and Adornment of San Francisco.
Daniel Burnham’s plan to reshape San Francisco, resurrected after the 1906 earthquake but scrapped after backlash from property owners.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1905Read more -
San Francisco 1849, Drawn on the Spot by Henry Firks
Henry Firks’ iconic birds-eye-view of San Francisco at the height of the Gold Rush.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1886Read more -
Map of San Francisco Showing Principal Streets and Places of Interest
The greatest and grandest pictorial map of San Francisco, representing the best of Roaring Twenties cartographic wit and optimism.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1927Read more -
Tails of the City Alligator Oz The land of Make-Believe.
Henley’s revolutionary 1976 thematic map of homosexual San Francisco — a testament to the city’s progressive track record for tolerance and inclusion.
Cartographer(s): J Clark HenleyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1976Read more -
Britton & Rey’s Guide Map of the City of San Francisco. 1887. Copyright. (with) Index to Street Guide Map of San Francisco, Cal. by Britton & Rey
Unusual 1887 Britton & Rey map of San Francisco with a rare depiction of the Bay District Racing Track.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1887Read more -
The San Francisco Call. New Era Edition.
A gorgeous 1897 lithograph of San Francisco’s ornate Call Building, once the tallest building west of the Mississippi.
Cartographer(s): H. S. Crocker CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1897Read more -
A bird’s-eye panoramic map of San Francisco
An intricate 1976 axonometric view of San Francisco — the first example we have ever seen for sale.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1976Read more -
All About San Francisco Illustrated. Know and Visit Unique Places located on keyed map of principal streets [with a] new map of Golden Gate Park
An unusual variant of James Ladd Delkin’s pictorial bird’s-eye-view of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): James Ladd DelkinPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1939Read more -
Bancroft’s Map of the Cable Railway System and Connections of San Francisco. 1890.
A late 19th century Cable Railway map with early bike shop advertisement.
Cartographer(s): The Bancroft CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1890Read more -
Official Map of San Francisco, Compiled From The Field Notes of the Official Re-Survey made by William M. Eddy, Surveyor of the Town of San Francisco, California, 1849.
Eddy’s 1849 map — One of the earliest obtainable maps of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): William EddyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1850Read more -
The “Chevalier” Commercial, Pictorial and Tourist Map of San Francisco From Latest U.S. Gov. and Official Surveys. Designed-Engraved And Copyrighted By Aug. Chevalier, Lithographer Publisher, 507 Mission St. San Francisco.
Chevalier’s famous map of San Francisco for the 1915 Exposition.
Cartographer(s): August ChevalierPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1915Read more -
Merry-Maker’s Map of San Francisco
A 1940 pictorial map of San Francisco that captures the zeitgeist of Herb Caen’s “Baghdad-by-the-Bay.”
Cartographer(s): Milt SchenkofskyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1940Read more -
Map of San Francisco, Points of Interest, A Birdseye View of the City by the Golden Gate
Excellent 1952 pictorial bird’s-eye-view of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Don BloodgoodPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1952Read more -
Official Map of Chinatown in San Francisco [bound in] San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1884-85
One of the great thematic maps of a 19th American city: a rare 1885 map of San Francisco Chinatown, “a city within the city.”
Cartographer(s): B. Farwell, John E. Kunklet, E. B. Pond; A.L. Bancroft & Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1885Read more -
Map of San Francisco Showing Principal Streets and Places of Interest
The greatest and grandest pictorial map of San Francisco, representing the best of Roaring Twenties cartographic wit and optimism.
Cartographer(s): Harrison GodwinPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1927Read more -
The City by the Golden Gate and some of its world-famed sight seeing spots
A wonderfully inventive 1950s pictorial map and promotional brochure of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Crocker First National BankPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1953Read more -
Bart Opens Embarcadero. First port o’call in San Francisco
Celebrating public transit — a pictorial view of downtown San Francisco announcing the 1976 opening of the Embarcadero BART station.
Cartographer(s): Heather KingPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1976Read more -
Mission Bell Motel’s Suggested 35 Mile Drive and Scenic Tour of San Francisco
The birth of cruising: San Francisco welcomes the automobile age.
Cartographer(s): M-W-M Color PressPlace/Date: Aurora, MO / ca. 1940Read more -
Map of the Avenue leading to Golden Gate Park Showing the Proposed Plan of Improvement, Together with that of the Entrance to the Park
1872 William Hammond Hall map of the Panhandle.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1872Read more -
41st Assembly District Showing its Election Precincts, City and County of San Francisco
A rarity of San Francisco — unrecorded 1888 precinct map of the Marina and Pacific Heights with mysterious East Van Ness.
Cartographer(s): Dakin Publishing CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1888Read more -
Bancroft’s Official Guide Map of the City and County of San Francisco, Compiled from Official Maps in Surveyor’s Office
1891 Bancroft City and County of San Francisco in excellent color.
Cartographer(s): The Bancroft CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1891Read more -
MapEasy’s Guidemap to San Francisco. A Location Map and Guidebook in one!
City travel on the eve of the world wide web: a detailed two-sided tourist map of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): MapEasyPlace/Date: Amagansett, NY / 1993Read more -
[Sequential Panoramic Triptych] The Burning City, The Ruins, and the Business Section of San Francisco
A scarce R.J. Waters three panoramic photograph sequence of San Francisco destroyed and rebuilt.
Cartographer(s): R.J. Waters CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1914Read more -
Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco
An evocative black and white photo of San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts taken shortly after its construction.
Cartographer(s): Cardinell-Vincent Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1915Read more -
Map of the City of San Francisco, full and complete to the present date. Compiled by Wm. M. Eddy, City Surveyor. January 15th, 1851
A unique and unrecorded variant of William M. Eddy’s iconic 1851 Red Line Map of San Francisco. With evidence of ownership by the great San Franciscan jurist Samuel Wirth Holladay, the first known civil rights lawyer to fight for African-American rights in California.
Cartographer(s): William EddyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1851Read more -
City of San Francisco from Rincon Point Tinted lithographed by C. Parsons N.Y., Deld by F.N. Otis M.D. Surgeon In USM Steamship COS Service, Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855, by F.N. Otis in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York
Before Salesforce Tower: one of the finest and rarest early views of San Francisco.
Place/Date: New York / 1855Read more -
Merry-Maker’s Map of San Francisco
A 1940 pictorial map of San Francisco that captures the zeitgeist of Herb Caen’s “Baghdad-by-the-Bay.”
Cartographer(s): Milt SchenkofskyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1940Read more -
The New California Sugar Refinery, San Francisco.
The New California Sugar Refinery: an emblem of late 19th century industrial San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1881Read more -
San Francisco Potrero Hill Showplace Square
Images of a different era: an exciting, block-by-block glimpse of late 1980s Potrero Hill San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): City Graphics of America, Inc.Place/Date: Fremont, CA / 1988Read more -
Palace Hotel. San Francisco.
A scarce and evocative view of the Palace Hotel: a monument to celebrate San Francisco’s coming-of-age.
Cartographer(s): Berghaus & SchimpfPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1880Read more -
Map Exhibiting the Salt Marsh, Tide and Submerged Lands Disposed of by the State of California in and Adjacent to the Bays of San Francisco and San Pablo and now Subject to Reclamation Prepared from Maps of the U.S. Coast Survey & Official Records by Order of the Board of State Harbor Commissioners for the United States Commissioners on San Francisco Harbor…
The power of private enterprise in America: a rare and important map of the San Francisco Bay Tide Lands, showcasing ambitions behind the city’s development.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1874Read more -
Meiguo Sanfan Shi hua qiao qu : xiang xi tu. / Map of San Francisco Chinatown.
Revealing the early 20th century Chinese experience in the Bay Area: a roaring ’20s map of San Francisco’s Chinatown.
Cartographer(s): J.P. WongPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1929Read more -
Metsker’s Map of San Francisco Bay District California
Large-format post WWII Metsker map of the Bay Area.
Cartographer(s): Charles F. MetskerPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1946Read more -
The “Chevalier” Commercial, Pictorial and Tourist Map of San Francisco From Latest U.S. Gov. and Official Surveys. Designed-Engraved And Copyrighted By Aug. Chevalier, Lithographer Publisher, 507 Mission St. San Francisco.
Chevalier’s famous map of San Francisco for the 1915 Exposition.
Cartographer(s): August ChevalierPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1915Read more -
Map of San Francisco, Points of Interest, A Birdseye View of the City by the Golden Gate
Excellent 1952 pictorial bird’s-eye-view of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Don BloodgoodPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1952Read more -
Souvenir Map of San Francisco Chinatown
Fine pictorial map of San Francisco Chinatown by a Chinese-American artist.
Place/Date: San Jose / ca. 1967Read more -
Bart Opens Embarcadero. First port o’call in San Francisco
A celebration of public transit — pictorial view of downtown San Francisco announcing the 1976 opening of the Embarcadero BART station.
Cartographer(s): Heather KingPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1976Read more -
San Francisco California
A crisp and uncommon pictorial view of San Francisco, conveying an ideal of the city.
Cartographer(s): Steven ScottPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1987Read more -
PORT OF SAN FRANCISCO. WHERE THE FAR EAST BEGINS
Uncommon promotional bird’s-eye-view in the style of Saul Steinberg showing the port of San Francisco as the gateway to Pacific commerce.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1984Read more -
1906 Britton & Rey’s Map of Greater San Francisco Showing Burned District
Unrecorded map of the destruction in San Francisco, published soon after the earthquake and fire.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1906Read more -
San Francisco Entrance
Attractive chart of the Bay Area with detailed mapping of San Francisco, the East Bay, and Marin County.
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1940Read more -
Map of the avenue leading to Golden Gate Park showing the proposed plan of improvement, together with that of the entrance to the park
Golden Gate Park takes shape: 1872 map of the Panhandle by William Hammond Hall.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1872Read more -
Map of San Francisco showing its uneven topography and the present and proposed main conduits reservoirs and pumping plants of the Spring Valley Water Co.
Mapping San Francisco’s famous hills – an unrecorded Spring Valley Water Co. topography map.
Cartographer(s): The Union Litho. Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1908Read more -
Map showing sources and lines of Water Supply proposed for the City of San Francisco 1877
Sustaining a growing city – detailed proposal map for supplying water to San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1877Read more -
Map of San Francisco, Showing the location of the different Distributing Reservoirs of The Spring Valley Water Works And the Districts supplied by each.
Where different San Francisco neighborhoods get their water – Spring Valley Water Works reservoir distribution map.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1877Read more -
City of San Francisco and Its Vicinity
Colorful and bright 1853 Coast Survey map of SF with downtown, marsh lands, and Mission Dolores.
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1853Read more -
Bancroft’s Official Guide Map of the City and County of San Francisco, Compiled from Official Sources in Surveyor’s Office…1883
Map of San Francisco issued on occasion of the Knights Templar Parade of 1883.
Cartographer(s): The Bancroft CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1883Read more -
Map showing changes on the Water Front of the City and County of San Francisco made by proposed Thoroughfare and System of Piers. T. J. Arnold. Chief Engineer of Board of State Harbor Commissioners.
Constructing San Francisco’s Embarcadero – 1877 map of proposed changes to the waterfront.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1877Read more -
The “Chevalier” Commercial, Pictorial and Tourist Map of San Francisco From Latest U.S. Gov. and Official Surveys. Designed-Engraved And Copyrighted By Aug. Chevalier, Lithographer Publisher, 507 Mission St. San Francisco.
Splendid Chevalier map of San Francisco for the 1915 Exposition.
Cartographer(s): August ChevalierPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1915Read more -
Map Showing the Water Front of the City and County of San Francisco. as established by the Board of State Harbor Commissioners, the Governor of the State of California, and the Mayor of the City & County of San Francisco. September 12th, 1877.
Large 1877 map of the San Francisco waterfront.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1877Read more -
San Francisco
Special 1974 Mark Hopkins Hotel issued pictorial map of San Francisco
Cartographer(s): Hollmann Publishing CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1974Read more -
Faust’s Map & Guide of San Francisco
Attractive 1882 folding map of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1882Read more -
Land Value Maps: Bureau of Appraisal, City and County of San Francisco, James F. Stafford, Superintendent, 1926-1927
Land value maps of San Francisco 1927
Cartographer(s): James F. StaffordPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1927Read more -
All About San Francisco Illustrated. Know and Visit Unique Places located on keyed map of principal streets [with a] new map of Golden Gate Park
An unusual variant of James Ladd Delkin’s pictorial bird’s-eye-view of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): James Ladd DelkinPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1939Read more -
1916 Election Precincts 32nd Assembly District and Part of the 4th Congressional District City and County of San Francisco
1916 voting map of Nob Hill and Russian Hill.
Cartographer(s): City and County of San FranciscoPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1916Read more -
Plan du Port de St. François, Situé su la côte de la Californie Septentrionale. La Pointe de Rois par 37o.59′. de Latitude Nord et 124o.54′. de Longitude Occidentale
The first widely disseminated map of settlements and key places at San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): La Pérouse, Jean François de Galaup dePlace/Date: Paris / 1797Read more -
4 San Francisco water supply maps
Four 1875 city water supply maps for San Francisco, engraved by the famous George Baker.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1875Read more -
Plat of the Sutro Gift for a Highway
1897 proposal for new rights of way around Laguna Honda reservoir
Cartographer(s): Geo E. Gresley-JacksonPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1897Read more -
De Witt’s Indexed Map of the City of San Francisco Compiled from the Latest Data
Detailed pre-1906 map of San Francisco
Cartographer(s):Place/Date: San Francisco / 1904Read more -
Bancroft’s Official Guide Map of the City and County of San Francisco, Compiled from Official Sources in Surveyor’s Office…1873
Bancroft’s iconic Blue-line map of San Francisco
Cartographer(s): The Bancroft CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1873Read more -
Map of the City of San Francisco with its additions, Showing Two of the Routes for the Introduction of Water by the Mountain Lake Water Company. As Surveyed By Henry S. Dexter C. E. December 1851
Extremely rare 1851 map illustrating San Francisco’s first water project.
Place/Date: New York / 1851Read more -
Map Of San Francisco Showing The Water Service Of Spring Valley Water Works. Distributing Reservoirs, Districts Supplied By Each And Location Of Principal Distributing Mains, Contour Lines, Showing Elevation Above Water & Fire Department And Fire Patrol Buildings.
Important pre-1906 earthquake water system map of San Francisco
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1894Read more -
Ansight von San Francisco 1877.
1877 bird’s-eye-view of San Francisco with advertisements for German businesses.
Cartographer(s): Philo Jacoby's "California State Almanac"Place/Date: San Francisco / 1877Read more -
Faust’s Map of the City and County of San Francisco, California
Gorgeous pre-1906 earthquake map of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1900Read more -
San Francisco Water System
Fascinating 1995 pictorial poster map of the San Francisco water system
Cartographer(s): San Francisco Water WorksPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1995Read more -
San Francisco Quadrangle (Topography)
Extensively detailed map of San Francisco and the East Bay
Cartographer(s): U.S. Geological SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1913Read more -
Railroad Map of the City of San Francisco California
1867 railroad map of San Francisco
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1867Read more -
Map of Golden Park. San Francisco, California
Post-WW2 map of Golden Gate Park and the Panhandle.
Cartographer(s): Hugh MooneyPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1947Read more -
Guide Map of the City of San Francisco Compiled from the Official Surveys &c.
1891 map of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Henry G. LangleyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1891Read more -
Official Map of Chinatown in San Francisco [bound in] San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1884-85…
Mapping vice in San Francisco: rare 1885 map of Chinatown, “a city within the city”.
Cartographer(s): B. Farwell, John E. Kunklet, E. B. Pond; A.L. Bancroft & Co.Place/Date: San Francisco / 1885Read more -
Map of the City & County of San Francisco
Fascinating 1927 wall map of San Francisco with new additions, including Golden Gate Heights and St. Mary’s Park.
Cartographer(s): H. A. CandrianPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1927Read more -
Guide Map, the City and County of San Francisco
1915 map of San Francisco with a plan of the Panama Pacific International Exposition
Cartographer(s): W. Bashford SmithPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1915Read more -
Map of San Francisco, Points of Interest, A Birdseye View of the City by the Golden Gate
Rare 1952 pictorial map of San Francisco
Cartographer(s): Don BloodgoodPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1952Read more -
City and County of San Francisco compiled from official surveys and sectioned in accordance with U.S. surveys
Rare 1861 first edition of Wackenreuder’s famous map of San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1861Read more -
Report upon the San Francisco and Ocean Shore Railroad Company, California
1881 map of proposed San Francisco and Ocean Shore Railroad
Cartographer(s): E. Wells Sackett & RankinPlace/Date: New York / 1881Read more -
Map of San Francisco, California
Late 19th century map of San Francisco with missing Marina street names
Cartographer(s): Matthews, Northrup & Co.Place/Date: New York / 1891Read more -
Contour Map of the Lake Merced properties showing improvements
Rare 1917 Spring Valley Water Company contour map of area around Lake Merced
Cartographer(s): Spring Valley Water CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1917Read more -
Bancroft’s Official Guide Map of City and County of San Francisco, Compiled from Official Maps in Surveyor’s Office
Fine example of Bancroft’s pocket map of San Francisco
Cartographer(s): The Bancroft CompanyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1887Read more -
San Francisco Peninsula. U.S. Coast Survey. Benjamin Peirce, Superintendent. 1869. Price $1.50. Verified J.E. Hilgard. Assist Coast Survey. In Charge of Office.
Striking late 19th century Coast Survey topographical chart of San Francisco Peninsula.
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / ca. 1880Read more -
Map of the City and County of San Francisco. Compiled from official surveys and engraved expressly for the San Francisco Health Department
1898 Public Health Department map of San Francisco
Cartographer(s): San Francisco Health DepartmentPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1898Read more -
Map of San Francisco, California. Showing limits of the Burned Area destroyed by the Fire of April 18th-21st, 1906, following the Earthquake of April 18th, 1906
1906 Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco disaster map made weeks after earthquake.
Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1Read more -
City of San Francisco and its Vicinity.
1853 United States Coast Survey steel-engraved master sheet map of the San Francisco Peninsula.
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1853Read more -
City of San Francisco and its Vicinity
1853 United States Coast Survey map of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1853Read more -
Map Showing Property of South San Francisco Land and Improvement Co at South San Francisco, San Mateo County, California
Detailed 1907 Britton & Rey lithograph of South San Francisco.
Place/Date: San Francisco / 1907Read more -
San Francisco Peninsula
1869 United States Coast Survey map of the San Francisco Peninsula
Cartographer(s): Office of the Coast SurveyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1869Read more -
Plat of the Pueblo Lands of San Francisco finally confirmed to the City of San Francisco. Surveyed under instructions from the U.S. Surveyor General by F. von Leicht, U.S. Dep. Surv. in December 1883 Containing 17754 36/100 Acres.
Remarkable 1883 manuscript map of land grants in San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Ferdinand von LeichtPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1883Read more -
Map of the City and County of San Francisco. Carefully Compiled from recent surveys, including all the new additions of Cities, Towns, and Villas, delineating the lines of Ranchos, Private Claims, Water Works, Railroads, &c. &c. Drawn for the San Francisco News Letter and the Pacific Mining Journal
Stunning 1864 map of San Francisco with detailed land grants and property boundaries
Cartographer(s): James ButlerPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1864Read more -
Second Biennial Report of the San Francisco Park Commissioners, 1872-73
San Francisco Commissioners report with two maps of Golden Gate Park.
Cartographer(s): San Francisco Park CommissionersPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1874Read more -
Map of the City of San Francisco Published by Britton & Rey
Never-folded mid-19th century map of San Francisco by Britton and Rey.
Cartographer(s): Britton & ReyPlace/Date: San Francisco / ca. 1856Read more -
San Francisco
Scarce 1881 atlas map of San Francisco divided by wards
Cartographer(s): O.W. Gray & SonPlace/Date: Philadelphia / 1881Read more -
Official Map of San Francisco, Compiled From The Field Notes of the Official Re-Survey made by William M. Eddy, Surveyor of the Town of San Francisco, California, 1849…
Eddy’s 1849 map — One of the earliest obtainable maps of San Francisco!
Cartographer(s): William EddyPlace/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1850Read more -
Map of the City & County of San Francisco Prepared by the Board of Public Works
1916 O’Shaughnessy map of San Francisco
Cartographer(s): M.M. O'ShaughnessyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1916Read more -
Appraisal of Structural Properties of the Spring Valley Water Company City Distributing Pipe System Subsoil Map Prepared by M.M. O’Shaughnessy City Engineer December 1913
1913 O’Shaughnessy Spring Valley Water subsoil pipe map of San Francisco
Cartographer(s): M.M. O'ShaughnessyPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1913Read more -
Map of San Francisco Showing Principal Streets and Places of Interest
Delightful 1927 pictorial map of San Francisco.
Cartographer(s): Harrison GodwinPlace/Date: San Francisco / 1927Read more
