{"id":592,"date":"2005-06-29T15:41:16","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T22:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=592"},"modified":"2005-06-29T15:41:16","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T22:41:16","slug":"the-illustrated-directory-vol-1-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/29\/the-illustrated-directory-vol-1-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Illustrated Directory: Vol. 1, San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.continuousblog.net\/2005\/06\/to_google_all_t.html\">Wade Roush<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/waderoush.typepad.com\/media\/Illustrated%20SF_page2_sm.jpg\" height=\"50%\" width=\"50%\"><\/p>\n<p><I>In fact, I&#8217;d guess that in this age of digital imaging and mapping, San Francisco has become the world&#8217;s most thoroughly documented city. I&#8217;m reminded of The Illustrated Directory: Vol. 1, San Francisco, an 1894 guidebook shown to me recently by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/articles\/05\/07\/issue\/forward_landsat.asp\">David Rumsey<\/a>, a private collector of historical maps. This beautiful and extremely rare volume, full of artists&#8217; engravings of each block of San Francisco&#8217;s business district, was unique for its time &#8212; and about 110 years ahead of A9 and Google. Without it, historians would know much less about the visual appearance of late-nineteenth-century San Francisco, much of which was destroyed in the catastrophic earthquake and fire of 1906. (To see the entire book, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrumsey.com\/\">www.davidrumsey.com<\/a>, open the &#8220;Insight Browser,&#8221; and do a search using the terms &#8220;illustrated San Francisco.&#8221;)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wade Roush: In fact, I&#8217;d guess that in this age of digital imaging and mapping, San Francisco has become the world&#8217;s most thoroughly documented city. I&#8217;m reminded of The Illustrated Directory: Vol. 1, San Francisco, an 1894 guidebook shown to me recently by David Rumsey, a private collector of historical maps. This beautiful and extremely rare volume, full of artists&#8217; engravings of each block of San Francisco&#8217;s business district, was unique for its time &#8212; and about 110 years ahead&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-maps","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-9y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}