{"id":5798,"date":"2025-10-15T10:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/5798\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:52:18","slug":"how-los-angeles-san-jose-and-san-diego-looked-more-than-100-years-ago-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/5798\/","title":{"rendered":"How Los Angeles, San Jose and San Diego looked more than 100 years ago \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The way we were<\/p>\n<p>Today we look at panoramic maps that are in the Library of Congress\u2019s archives.<\/p>\n<p>The panoramic map was a popular cartographic form used to depict U.S. and Canadian cities and towns during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Known also as bird\u2019s-eye views, perspective maps are non photographic representations of cities portrayed as if viewed from above at an oblique angle. Although not generally drawn to scale, they show street patterns, individual buildings and major landscape features in perspective.<\/p>\n<p>To see more cities in the U.S. and Canada, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/collections\/panoramic-maps\/?fa=location:california\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">search Library of Congress panoramic maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpdash.medianewsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/old-maps-full-size.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline lazyautosizes alignnone lazyload\" alt=\"\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/old-maps-full-size.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"11172554\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpdash.medianewsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pamona-1886.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline lazyautosizes alignnone lazyload\" alt=\"\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pamona-1886.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"11172555\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpdash.medianewsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pasadena-1900.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline lazyautosizes alignnone lazyload\" alt=\"\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pasadena-1900.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"11172556\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpdash.medianewsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/san-francisco-1868.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline lazyautosizes alignnone lazyload\" alt=\"\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/san-francisco-1868.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"11172557\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpdash.medianewsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/los-angeles-1900.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-article_inline lazyautosizes alignnone lazyload\" alt=\"\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/los-angeles-1900.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"11172553\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sources: Library of Congress<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The way we were Today we look at panoramic maps that are in the Library of Congress\u2019s archives.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[8,418,6276,100,88,90,89,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-5798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-california-news","9":"tag-history","10":"tag-infographic","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-headlines","14":"tag-san-jose-news","15":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}