Featured on PDR in the collection Maps Showing California as an Island

If California were a country its economy would be the fifth largest in the world (just ahead of the UK). Yet the tech boom is not the starkest way California has ever stood apart from its neighbours. That would surely be the maps depicting it as an island, entire of itself. Below we have featured our pick of these glorious seventeenth- and eighteenth-century aberrations, from a collection of hundreds held at Stanford.

Map of California as an island

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Date

ca. 1650


Underlying Rights

Public Domain Worldwide

Digital Rights

No Additional Rights

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  • Exceptional quality, from $32 including delivery
  • Archival inks on high grade art paper
  • Framed option with solid wood and ready to hang

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1058 x 802 Higher res available?

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