Map of the City of San Jose: Clayton 1886

Title: MAP OF THE CITY OF SAN JOSE PUBLISHED BY JAMES A. CLAYTON REAL ESTATE AGENT San Jose, Cal. 1886 Author: James A. Clayton Date: 1886 Medium: Lithographed map with hand color Condition: Very Good - Bright example with vibrant color on two conjoined sheets as issued, light age toning and foxing, expert repairs to areas of paper loss in margins and image Inches: 40 x 36 1/4 [Paper] Centimeters: 101.6 x 92.08 [Paper] Product ID: 3110053 San Jose, City of Innovation Very rare large-scale map of San Jose, California, at the convergence of the Guadalupe and Coyote Rivers. Features colored overlays indicating the locations of important buildings, parks, and institutions, and is superimposed with concentric circles showing radial distances from the juncture of First and Santa Clara Streets. This grand map emerges as a seminal artifact within the corpus of individually issued maps dedicated to the municipality. Only two known earlier maps of San Jose are known: Thomas Whit