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Guide to the city of Los Angeles : with the only map and street directory ever published
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Old shelf number: eph J2d. Shows rail roads and street car lines. Street Index. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Advertising copy.
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The verso contains many business ads along with a directory of hotels, public buildings, theaters, railway offices, etc. From Hoover on the west to "City limit Street" (today's Indiana St.) on the east, Jefferson on the south, Baxter St. to the north. Folder contains several newspaper clippings from this an earlier eras. Gift of Mrs. Florence M. Kreider June 1945. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1891 by J. Bell in the office of the Librarian of Congress in Washington." Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles (circles). Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Many advertisements and extensive directory..
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Hand coloring differentiates then existing cable railway lines and horse-drawn lines. Also electric lines in operation and those proposed, including land acquired for same. Baxter St. to the north, Hoover St. to the west, Lorena St. to the east, Jefferson to the south. Compare this map with 341666, the same map printed four years earlier. Considerable development has occurred during that period including additional public transportation lines. MS note on cover: Mch. 11 92 General Map Cable System Electric System." Cover title: Corran's Map of Los Angeles 1891. Relief: no. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Shows various railways and street railways including the Los Angeles & Ostrich Farm R. R. apparently the one in what is now Griffith Park. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: Corran's Los Angeles City Map.
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