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Map of the Lake Vineyard Land and Water Association
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Map Showing the Property of the Lake Vineyard Land and Water Association
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Rancho San Pasqual; some parcel owners identified; hachures, tracts indicated; Marengo Rancho, San Gabriel Grove Assn
mssSolano SR_Map_0172.01
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Lake Vineyard Land and Water Association
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The collection consists of maps, field books, legal documents, business papers, and diaries related to the work of surveyors George Hansen, Alfred Solano, Sidney B. Reeve, and others. The maps and surveys in the collection are of the city of Los Angeles, Southern California ranchos, and subdivisions of the city of Los Angeles and neighboring towns. The collection contains over maps and sketch maps. Other subjects represented in the collection include: civil engineering, land subdivision, mines and mineral resources, and daily life in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County.
mssSolano
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Water: Lake Vineyard Land and Water Association. Maps, Plats, and Legal Agreements
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The collection, which contains 10,844 items, consists of correspondence, letter books, manuscripts, speeches, diaries, account books, published articles, legal papers, financial statements and business records. The 10,528 pieces of correspondence are chiefly addressed to James De Barth Shorb, James M. Tiernan and Maria de Jesus Wilson Shorb. The 17 letter books are related to the business and financial affairs of Shorb and Benjamin Davis Wilson. The 75 manuscripts consist of items chiefly written by Shorb and Wilson family members. The 224 items in the Business Papers include material related to Shorb's many companies including the San Gabriel Wine Company. The following subjects are covered in the Shorb collection: the Shorb, Wilson, and Patton families, David Jacks, Mariano Vallejo, Santa Catalina Island, the Mount Wilson Observatory, California government and politics, African Americans and the Chinese in California, agriculture, the citrus fruit industry, Indians of California, irrigation, lend tenure, mining, railroads, ranching, water rights, and the wine industry. The collection also documents the history and development of the following California cities: Alhambra, Elsinore, Los Angeles, Pasadena, Ramona, San Gabriel, San Marino, and Wilmington.
mssShorb papers
First sheet, of three, of the Map Showing the Property of the Lake Vineyard Land and Water Association
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Title supplied by cataloger.
mssSolano SR_Map_0172.01A
Second sheet, of three, of the Map Showing the Property of the Lake Vineyard Land and Water Association
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Title supplied by cataloger.
mssSolano SR_Map_0172.01B
Third sheet, of three, of the Map Showing the Property of the Lake Vineyard Land and Water Association
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Title supplied by cataloger.
mssSolano SR_Map_0172.01C