1862 U.S.Coast Survey Map of the Southern Part of San Francisco Bay
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Description: This is an attractive 1863 U.S. Coast Survey chart or nautical map or the southern part of San Francisco Bay, California. Covers from Alviso and Redwood city northward as far as Point Avisadera. Includes Union City, Johnson’s Landing. Eden Landing. Mayhew’s Landing, Ravenswood, San Francisquito Creek, Belmont, San Mateo and San Bruno. Offers thousands of depth soundings but true to form as nautical chart very little inland detail. Sailing instructions and tidal notation in the lower left hand quadrant. The triangulation and Topography survey for this map was accomplished by R. D. Cutts and A. E. Rodgers. The Hydrography was accomplished by parties under the command of James Alden and R. M Cuyler. The entire word was prepared under the supervision of A.D. Bache, director of the U.S. Coast Survey. Engraved by G. Mathiot for the 1862 edition of the Surveyor General’s Report …
Date: 1862 (dated)
Source: Report of the Superintendant of the U.S. Coast Survey, (1862 edition).
Cartographer: The Office of the Coast Survey, founded in 1807 by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of Commerce Albert Gallatin, is the oldest scientific organization in the U.S. Federal Government. Jefferson created the "Survey of the Coast," as it was then called, in response to a need for accurate navigational charts of the new nation's coasts and harbors. The first superintendent of the Coast Survey was Swiss immigrant and West Point mathematics professor Ferdinand Hassler. Under the direction of Hassler, from 1816 to 1843, the ideological and scientific foundations for the Coast Survey were established. Hassler, and the Coast Survey under him developed a reputation for uncompromising dedication to the principles of accuracy and excellence. Hassler lead the Coast Survey until his death in 1843, at which time Alexander Dallas Bache, a great-grandson of Benjamin Franklin, took the helm. Under the leadership A. D. Bache, the Coast Survey did most of its most important work. During his Superintendence, from 1843 to 1865, Bache was steadfast advocate of American science and navigation and in fact founded the American Academy of Sciences. Bache was succeeded by Benjamin Pierce who ran the Survey from 1867 to 1874. Pierce was in turn succeeded by Carlile Pollock Patterson who was Superintendent from 1874 to 1881. In 1878, under Patterson's superintendence, the U.S. Coast Survey was reorganized as the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey (C & GS or USGS) to accommodate topographic as well as nautical surveys. Today the Coast Survey is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration or NOAA. Click here for a list of rare maps from the U. S. Coast Survey.
Size: Printed area measures 35.5 x 27 inches (90.17 x 68.58 centimeters)
Condition: Good condition. Some minor toning and restoration work along original fold lines. Blank on verso.
Code: UpperSanFranBay-uscs-1862 (Necessary for phone inquiries: 646-320-8650)
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