Last week the esteemed David Gallagher kindly pointed me to a photo of a streetcar from the SFMTA photo archives. here's one for @burritojustice Mission south of 29th 1904 – from the awesome @S...
All hail Eric Fischer, master of historophotography! The Southern Pacific trestle bridge over Dolores Street in 1910. More on the path of the SPRR here and here. And @markasaurus did a nice walki...
Thanks to the bountiful twitter and web feed of Philip Bump, I came across a 5 minute film showing the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake and fire from the Internet Archive. This may have ...
https://burritojustice.com/2012/11/30/1906-post-fire-and-earthquake-panorama/
Real life has been interfering with important historical research. This must stop! Despite a busy day at work, I will bring history forward! Or something like that. Anyway, we’ve all seen the...
https://burritojustice.com/2011/09/20/animated-gif-from-1929/
Did a fun little interview on KQED about the 1905 Sanborn fire insurance maps and the geo-location alignment tool that Mike from Stamen was kind enough to build. The easy part is done — the map...
https://burritojustice.com/2011/08/17/crowdsourcing-maps-unnumbering-streets/
A few weeks ago, I made a vague promise that I would hack together some sort of overview map of the rather lovely 1905 Sanborn maps of San Francisco, scanned by the all-powerful David Rumsey. All...
https://burritojustice.com/2011/07/19/sit-spin-sanborn-maps-editon/
While watching the Adjustment Bureau, I noticed them using Sanborn maps: I leave it to New York readers to determine the location. (But seriously, A.B., you have those kick-ass displys in your Mo...
https://burritojustice.com/2011/07/03/adjustment-bureau-sanborn-unit/
Big historical map news — David Rumsey has scanned the Sanborn fire insurance maps for 1905 San Francisco. The black and white images you often see here in the Burrito Justice Time Machine are ...
https://burritojustice.com/2011/06/27/1905-sf-sanborn-maps-now-in-color/
Longtime readers know that map scanologist Eric Fisher is a wonderful source of early 20th century constructo/destructo-porn. While many plans did not happen (a skytrain down Valencia St, for exa...
https://burritojustice.com/2011/06/24/wide-wide-bernal-and-capp/
Bibliodyssey recently highlighted the rather amazingly ornate title pages of our favorite historical map source, Sanborn. San Francisco was sadly lacking, so as a public service I present you our...
https://burritojustice.com/2011/02/14/sanborn-map-lettering/