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Lawrence was one of the earliest towns in Kansas established after the territory was opened by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. This lithograph was widely circulated throughout New England in an effort to attract settlers from that region. The reproduction is one-sixth smaller than the original.
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| Size: 19" x 21" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Drawing on the experience at Lowell, Abbott Lawrence in 1847 founded the town bearing his name on the Merrimack River, 26 miles northwest of Boston. Three decades later Lawrence was at the height of its prosperity, and this fine, toned lithograph reveals clearly the dense pattern of industrial, commercial and residential buildings forming the core of the city.
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| Size: 15¼” x 20¾” - Toned, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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Drawing on the experience at Lowell, Abbott Lawrence in 1847 founded the town bearing his name on the Merrimack River, 26 miles northwest of Boston. Three decades later Lawrence was at the height of its prosperity, and this fine, toned lithograph reveals clearly the dense pattern of industrial, commercial, and residential buildings forming the core of the city.
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| Size: 20¼" x 27½" - Toned, Cover-stock Paper: $32.50 |
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The Nebraska capital and university town was planned in 1867 on a site acquired by the state for that purpose. Its wide streets and generous sites for parks and public buildings provided the framework for its subsequent rapid growth. The reproduction is one-tenth smaller than the original.
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| Size: 20¼" x 25½" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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The original of this early plan is a manuscript drawing in the records of the City of Los Angeles. It shows the town as enlarged from the Spanish settlement according to surveys by Edward Ord in 1849 as copied by Lothar Seebold in 1872. This reproduction is reduced one-third from the original.
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| Size: 17¾" x 19" - Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Date: 1849-1857 |
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Published about 1875, this map shows the original Spanish town as enlarged by Ord in 1849, the 35-acre farm tracts surveyed by Henry Hancock in 1853, and the municipal boundary line established in 1857. It is reproduced from a lithograph in the California State Library.
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| Size: 20¾" x 21", Black & White, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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This first printed view of Los Angeles appeared in a War Department publication in 1856, Reports of Explorations and Surveys. Our colored reproduction accurately duplicates the muted tones of the original lithograph.
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| Size: 6½" x 9½" - Toned, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Los Angeles or "Sonora Town" is depicted in this 1857 lithograph by Kuchel and Dresel, printed by Britton & Rey, San Francisco. This scarce view includes a color tone added to highlight the print. It is a valuable record of the city's early development.
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| Size: 11¾" x 17¾" - Toned, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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Los Angeles is depicted in one of the California views by Kuchel and Dressel and published by Hellman & Bro. This version of the print includes 20 vignettes of important buildings, including the residences of Stephen Foster and Don Jose Sepulveda. This toned lithograph is a valuable record of the city's early architecture.
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| Size: 15¼” x 19½” - Toned, Text Weight Paper: $10.00 |
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At the beginning of what were to be two decades of almost explosive growth, Los Angeles had just begun to expand beyond that area developed during its Spanish and Mexican periods. A.E. Matthews' view looks toward the original Spanish plaza in the distance across fields that were soon to be filled with buildings.
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| Size: 12½" x 20¼" - Toned, Cover-stock Paper: $27.50 |
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