Manuscripts

Maps of the coast of California and Mexico

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Description: With two small reproductions.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1746-1770.
Call number: mssHM 29097
Provenance: Purchased from Chiswick Book Shop, 1966.
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Map of lower California from Sonora, Mexico, to Santa Fe, New Mexico :

Manuscripts

mssHM 84399

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Map of the state of Sinaloa and the west coast of Mexico

Rare Books

MS notes: VG dup. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.

438374

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Block (map) book for Berkeley, California

Manuscripts

This oversize volume contains almost two hundred hand-drawn maps of city blocks in Berkeley, California (including owners' names, tract names, etc.). The block book contains two loose sheets: block map of "Villa Homestead" (Bay Street and Union Avenue, p.12) and "Map of Pine Terrace" (Pine Avenue, Elmwood Avenue, and Webster Street, 1906, p. 178).

mssHM 79256

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1. Pacific Coast and Southern California, Mexico and Trinidad

Manuscripts

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.

mssArnold

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Annotated map: New Mexico Territory to San Pedro, California

Manuscripts

Professional and personal papers of Edward Griffin Beckwith including his journals, ledgers, accounts, military records, and personal and official correspondence, chiefly related to his post-Mexican War service. His journals were kept during his service in California and his letters to his wife recount his life in the West, including details of the death of John Williams Gunnison and his encounters with Mormons. Also included are two annotated maps of New Mexico Territory, California, and Utah, Beckwith's records of spiritualistic seances from 1860 to 1872, and some photographs. The collection also contains letters of John Laurence Fox to his parents, wife, and son written between 1837 and 1864. Included are letters dealing with the Exploring Expedition, the mission to the Mediterranean, slave trade in West Africa, Matthew C. Perry's mission to Japan, foreign intervention in China, Taiping Rebellion, and the American Civil War. This portion of the collection also contains his surgeon's commission in 1847, and newspapers clippings related to the death of Charles Eben Fox.

mssBF

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Map...Lake Huron to the Pacific Coast

Manuscripts

On verso: outline of east coast of Mexico showing Tampico, Vera Cruz, etc.

mssHM 2048

Maps of the coast of California and Mexico

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