Website images stay small on purpose — the full map, at full sharpness, only exists on paper.
Reconstructed historic survey — framed
The Pair — 1899 & 1912
$895.00
Both maps, hung together. The 1899 survey — the last complete picture of the city before the Great Storm — above the 1912, the city raised and rebuilt. Same streets, same lots, thirteen years apart; the two are cut so the blocks line up when stacked.
Two 22 × 28s for $895 (separately $990), or two 27 × 40s for $1,450 (separately $1,590). Matching gold frames, glazed, ready to hang.
What you're looking at
This map was never published as a single piece. It existed only as dozens of separate hand-drawn survey sheets in public archives. I tracked down the original scans, worked out where every sheet belonged from street names and block numbers, and aligned them along the street grid until downtown came back together as one seamless picture — at the full detail of the originals.
Nothing is redrawn or "restored." The foxing, the pencil corrections, the century of wear — that's the real map.
Size & framing
Two sizes, both in the same slim gold metal frame, glazed and ready to hang:
27 × 40 (large) — the map fills the full 27 × 40 sheet, edge to edge. Add the white mat and the visible image becomes about 23.5 × 35.5.
22 × 28 (small) — the same map at a tighter crop on the downtown blocks, filling the full 22 × 28 sheet. With the white mat the visible image is about 18 × 24.
Either way it arrives finished — hang it horizontal or turn it 90° and hang it tall.
Paper & printing
Printed on archival enhanced matte paper with pigment inks — the same combination galleries use for work meant to hang for generations. The matte surface holds the original hand lettering crisp and legible at full size, without glare under glass.
Each map is printed here in Galveston.
Delivery
Each map is finished within a few days of your order.
On Galveston Island, I bring it to you myself, or you're welcome to collect it downtown at 22nd and Postoffice — both at no charge. Choose Local delivery or Pickup at checkout and I'll be in touch to arrange a time.
Elsewhere in the United States it travels flat and insured by USPS; the rate for your address is shown at checkout.
Framed pieces aren't returnable, but if yours arrives with so much as a scratch, I'll replace it.
Judge it yourself
The detail, up close.
Two live windows into the original survey sheets, at the full resolution of the archive scans — drag around and read the names. The full reconstructed map, at full sharpness, only exists on paper.
