02 2 / 2012

Birdseye View in 1876

Birdseye view of San Francisco and surrounding country. Drawn by G. H. Goddard, c.e. Lith. Britton, Rey & Co.

And a close-up of Mission Bay, when it was actually a bay.

Zoom in, or see it at the Library of Congress’s 1996-tastic website.

(ht harlequinnnight)