By 1959, Redlands' identity as one of Southern California's premier citrus towns — a reputation built on navel oranges since the 1880s — was beginning to give way to a different kind of growth. Southern California's postwar population boom was pushing east into San Bernardino County's Inland Empire, and the groves that had defined Redlands for three generations were increasingly competing with new subdivisions for the same land.
We georeferenced this 1959 map of Redlands and added shaded relief using modern digital elevation data, so the town's citrus-belt terrain reads with real topographic depth. It's printed flat on fine art paper — the dimension comes from the shading itself, not any raised or textured surface — so it frames like any fine art print in our collection.
A note on legibility: the map's original lettering is small, and in places the added relief shading darkens the text beneath it. We recommend the largest size available for the clearest read, though some fine print may still be difficult to make out even at that size.