Old Birds Eye Map of San Francisco in 1878 - Bay Area, Golden Gate, Gold Rush, Mission Bay, North Beach north yorkshire The map spans all the

The map spans all the way from Ireland and England in the top right corner to the northern parts of South America at the bottom of the map

fantastically detailed and very rare map of Africa by British mapmaker Emanuel Bowen has significant historical value

and his map was based on Giacomo Gastaldi's world map - a map that would be the prototype for many other world maps over the next 100 years or so

On the left hand side of the map are 7 Anglo-Saxon kings of the pre-Christian era

Old Birds Eye Map of San Francisco in 1878 - Bay Area, Golden Gate, Gold Rush, Mission Bay, North Beach north yorkshire The map spans all theThis strikingly beautiful and interesting birds eye map shows the "Boomtown" city of San Francisco in 1878 after it had undergone massive expansion after the Gold Rush earlier in the 1800s. The map was created by Charles Parsons and published by Currier & Ives. The map looks at the city from a point roughly north north east of the peninsula, looking south south west. Across the bottom of the map is a key that tells you all the landmarks that are shown