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A California idyle ; being an appreciation of California from the snow line of the Sierras to the orange laden breezes of the South
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County Road, being part of the Road from Los Angeles City to San Diego, which lies between the South-line of the San Joaquin Rancho and the Division-line of the San Diego and Los Angeles counties
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Collection of maps surveyed for the Los Angeles County Assessor's Office between 1860 and 1897. The maps primarily focus on excavations, improvements, and expansions of roads throughout Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Orange Counties, with geographic coverage ranging from Malibu to Pomona and Newhall to San Juan Capistrano. Most of the maps show boundary lines of the various Ranchos existent throughout these counties, and many also include buildings, railroads, telegraph lines, land use, relief, and elements of the natural landscape such as canyons and rivers. Also included are maps showing the San Gabriel Mission, San Juan Capistrano Mission, and an elevation of the Los Angeles County court house. Some of the Ranchos depicted include San Antonio, Azusa, San Jose, Los Nogales, San Pedro, San Joaquin, San Rafael, Centinela, La Puente, Sausal Redondo, La Ballona, Rodeo-de-las-Aguas, Cienega, San Pasqual, and San Francisquito. Property shown includes that of Elias 'Lucky' Baldwin, Pio Pico, and Abel Stearns. The maps were originally housed in 16 bound volumes.
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"Inter-California Southern Railway -- Abandonment." File No. 080-2, Part 3. From (~1"). Detailed inventory of equipment and supplies; note that on May 8, 1941, Board approved sale (third board member Harry Chandler being absent, J.A. Small and E.B. Sloan, the other two board members, voted to do so) of line to Mexican govt., for a single purchase price of $200,000 pesos, for the line, totaling 69 kilometers. Not a very big line
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These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
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