The Gray-Emmer Map Collection

Welcome to The Gray-Emmer Map Collection Archive

I started collecting maps in 2002 and I've been looking for the best pre-30s Los Angeles plates ever since. Thanks for checking out my collection. If you've got a map on my Wishlist, or anything else of historic significance, please drop me a line at dtlajosh@gmail.com.

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1909 Birdseye View and Street Map - A Complete Guide To The City

Headquartered in the Grosse Building at the corner of 6th and Spring (now SB Tower), the Birdseye View Publishing Company mass-produced this exemplary axonometric rendering of Los Angeles in 1909.

1905 Official Map of the City of Los Angeles California / Burks, Kitts and Jefferies

This curious map expresses the dominant conventions of urban planning in a time in Los Angeles history when few could have predicted that the city would develop a sprawling footprint.