(CA. - L.A. Area) Vicinity Of Los Angeles, Hardesty, 1883 As a map for this part of Southern California, before the prevalence of the automobile and its impacts, this is an interesting moment to think about what could have been. While this does show the major wagon roads reaching from Santa Barbara, out to San Bernadino, and down to San Diego, its the presence of those thick black lines that show how railroads knit the region together and could have been the main method of promoting travel and settlement into the future, perhaps like Tokyo and its expansive sprawl. Condition is very good, and image size is approximately 10 x 13 (inches)
