Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
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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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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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Manuscripts
Block book made for Wesley Clark (1852-1926) and Elden Bryan (1851-1925), both land owners in early Los Angeles history and who in 1902 setp up the Westmoreland tract. A letter by John C. Platt to "Messers Clark and Bryan" tipped in, 1901 June 3.
mssHM 84288
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Visual Materials
No old shelf mark. Intended as a wall map, but folded, with street index in the surround, this map suffers from Thomas Bros. penchant for not dating their maps. Based on phone directories of San Francisco and Oakland, this was probably made in the mid to late 1920s, as the Thomas Brothers were only at the Samsone address for a brief time; this does not contradict internal evidence, since the latest building depicted is City Hall, which was constructed in 1926 (Stockton memories, R. Coke Wood, 1977, page 73, RB F869 S8 W66. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Blue line print.
ephMPCALIF0173
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400570
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