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Map of Santa Barbara County showing official surveys of ranchos and general topography
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16. Rancho Santa Maria, Santa Barbara County
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The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
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Ranchos La Zaca and Corral de Quati, Santa Barbara County, map
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The collection consists of the personal and business papers of Henry E. Huntington. There is material related to the Huntington, Holladay, and Metcalf families, but most of the collection deals with Huntington's business interests in Southern California, railways, real estate, and industry. Series 2. Henry E. Huntington and his family includes biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, scrapbooks, ephemera, and physical objects. There is material related to the Huntington Land and Improvement Company, Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and the Pacific Electric Railway Company as well as other businesses in Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Gabriel Valley, California. This material includes business records, account books, annual reports, correspondence, maps, tracts, balance sheets, and others. There is also material related to the founding of the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens including auction catalogs, invoices, receipts, and bills for art and rare books, and information regarding a lawsuit about Huntington's estate tax after his death, and the passing of Proposition 15, in 1930, which exempted The Huntington from paying California property tax. There is also material related to Collis P. Huntington and his business interests and Arabella Huntington. Also included are the blueprints for the Huntington's San Marino residence. Series 3. Correspondence contains over 22,000 pieces of personal and business correspondence spanning 1794 to 1970. The physical objects include Henry E. Huntington's lunch box, razors, traveling trunk, and other items.
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Argument on the survey of the rancho "Rio de Santa Clara," : situated in the county of Santa Barbara, state of Calofornia
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Map of the County of Santa Barbara California
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Approved and declared the Official Map of Santa Barbara County, by resolution of the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County, November, 1888. Submaps: Santa Barbara Channel and the Islands of Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz; Los Alamos; Lompoc; Santa Maria; Santa Barbara. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Map of Montecito (Santa Barbara County)
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No old shelf mark. The verso of this map is ephMPCALIF0103 of Santa Barbara. Street index in the surround. MS note: A.D. 1928. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Map ephMPCALIF0103.
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JANIN, Charles Henry. Sketch map of Rancho Marcelino, Santa Barbara County, Calif
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, manuscripts (including diaries and mining reports), photographs and maps related to the career of mining engineer Charles Janin. Subject matter in the collection focuses on minerals, mines and mining, especially in California, Mexico, Alaska, Canada, Russia (including Siberia), and Central and South America. There is information about gold, silver, platinum, and tin mining as well as gold dredging.
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