of the San Francisco Bay Area, showing the islands and the early street layouts. Date said to be the 1880s. San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley are still quite small and even these streets are in many cases only imagined settlement, awaiting reality. This map was created for real estate development purposes. One sees the long "mole" that stretched from Oakland's shores out to almost "Goat Island"--today the area covered by the East Span of the Bay Bridge. Goat Island has long been known as Yerba Buena Island and since the 1930s has had an enlarged "made" section known as Treasure Island, site of the Golden Gate Exposition in 1939.
The map is currently on view--along with many other interesting historical documents--in an exhibit at the Berkeley Historical Society. Worth a visit!!
www.berkeleyhistoricalsociety.org/Center-Hours.html 