MAP: SAN FRANCISCO

Official Map of San Francisco, Compiled from Field Notes of the Official Re-Survey Made by William M. Eddy . . . S. W. Higgins draftn. Copied by P. M. McGill.

Washington, [D.C.]: C. B. Graham, Lith., 1849 [for 1850]. Second printed map of San Francisco, preceded by a slightly different version based on the same survey by Eddy and lithographed in San Francisco. Howes J 248; Heckrotte, Maps of San Francisco (not published), 2. 25.5 x 19 inches, lithographed. ¶ In early 1850, the Alta California newspaper acknowledged receiving from City Engineer William Eddy a newly resurveyed lithographed map of San Francisco which was “well executed and may be relied upon as accurate.” This was the first printed (technically lithographed) map of San Francisco, showing the layout of the streets as Jasper O’Farrell had planned them in 1847, but O’Farrell’s survey (the basis on which San Francisco is laid out today) remained in manuscript until later in 1850 when it was printed (of which only one copy is known to survive). This second version of Eddy’s re-survey was published in the William Cary Jones’ Report of the Secretary of the Interior, Washington, 1850. Left and right margins slightly trimmed; fine copy.

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