Galveston, 1899
The last complete picture of the city before the Storm.
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See the mapReconstructed historic surveys — Galveston, Texas
Downtown Galveston, building by building, as it was.
Two large-format maps of the city — 1899, the year before the Great Storm, and 1912, the city raised and rebuilt — pieced back together from the original archive sheets, wear and all.
The maps
Two surveys, thirteen years apart.
The Pair — 1899 & 1912
Both surveys, hung together — before the Storm above, the raised city below.
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See the mapGalveston, 1912
The city that raised itself. The rebuilt, lifted grid after the Storm.
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See the mapThe story
It started as dozens of loose sheets in an archive.
I'm not an artist, and I'm not much of a businessman. I live in Galveston, I fell in love with what used to stand in these buildings, and I spent two years of evenings after work lining up hand-drawn survey sheets until the whole downtown came back together as one picture. Nothing redrawn, nothing "restored" — the pencil marks and foxing are the real map.
Judge it yourself
The detail, up close.
Each panel below is a live window on the survey — drag around and read the names. Website images stay far below print resolution; the complete reconstructed maps, at full sharpness, only ever exist on paper.