Manuscripts
Los Angeles land papers
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Certificates of Sale because of Law Suits
Manuscripts
These papers document the transfer of land in Los Angeles County during the first few decades of California statehood. This collection consists of the original documents certifying the sale, purchase, pre-emption, or surveying of land by sheriffs, clerks, notary publics, and surveyors of Los Angeles County between 1850 and 1889. Some of these legal proceedings partially document the transfer of land ownership from Californio to American hands. Many of these documents are “pre-emption” claims to land made mostly by new American immigrants to California under the Possessory Act of April 20, 1852, which gave individuals the right to claim 160 acres of public lands for the purposes of mining or agriculture. The "inventories of women’s separate property" were a result of the California State law enacted on April 17, 1850, entitled "Act defining the rights of Husband and Wife." This collection includes mortgage agreements and releases; inheritances and wills; certificates of sale due to taxes owed, law suits, and foreclosure; claims of preemption; land documents of individuals significant to Los Angeles history including Abel Stearns, Pío Pico, Ignacio del Valle, Francis P.F. Temple, and Benjamin D. Wilson; lease agreements; and additional miscellaneous legal documents relating to land transfers.
mssLAL
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Women's Separate Property
Manuscripts
The bulk of these items are documents entitled "Inventories of Women's Separate Property." In addition to inventories, this folder also includes other legal documents relating to female ownership of land and property including deeds of sale, wills and leases.
mssLAL
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Salt marsh & tide lands situate in the counties of Alameda & Contra Costa, State of California
Rare Books
At head of title: "Sale map No. 11." "Under and by virtue of the act entitled "An Act supplementary to and amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to Survey & Dispose of certain Salt Marsh & Tidelands belonging to the State of California, Approved Marsh(sic.) Thirtieth, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Eight." Approved April 1st, 1870." "Sale to commence Wednesday July 10th 1872 at 11 AM at the Sales Rooms of Greenebaum & Co. Nos. 115 & 117 Bush Street, San Francisco." "Greenbaum & Co. Auctioneers." Submap: The Lands in Lake Merritt. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Chains. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
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California Land Subdivisions (Los Angeles County)
Manuscripts
The alphabetically-arranged collection is arranged in the following manner: Arizona Mines, California Mines, California Land Subdivisions, Canada and Mexico Mines, and Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico Mines; Miscellaneous Mining Charts, Surveys, and Engineering Drawings; Personal Photographs; and Ephemera. Within each box, the folders are arranged alphabetically by county (or by neighborhood/area in the case of the California Land Subdivision folders). Individual mining companies, mining claims, subdivisions, and neighborhoods are listed on the folders but are not listed in finding aid unless there are multiple folders for a specific county. Several folders contain state maps or miscellaneous surveys and engineering drawings that are not particular to specific counties; these folders are labeled by state and are placed after the specific county folders.
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Contract with Elias G. Granger, Los Angeles, Calif
Manuscripts
This document is a contract between C.C. Kiertz, E.R. Dunlap, and Elias G. Granger regarding the sale and transfer of water canal property in Los Angeles
mssHM 62566
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Deed from Ellen Weixel to Gaspar Oreña for parcels of land in Los Angeles and Anaheim
Manuscripts
The documents demonstrate the range of legal, financial, and real estate-related transactions initiated by or concerning the Oreña Family and their associates. Included in this series are title deeds, land claims, and land grants pertaining to the family's properties in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. Also included are receipts and invoices. The manuscripts include four works pertaining to the Oreña Family as well as other early California families, namely the de la Guerra family. The series also contains two typewritten manuscripts: the first is Occurrences in California, as reported by Angustias de la Guerra Ord and the second is Carlota Koch's "La Guipuzcoana," which chronicles the lives of Gaspar Orena, Cesareo Lataillade, Maria Antonia de la Guerra, and those of their acquaintances. The correspondence includes personal and business letters to and by the Oreña Family members and their associates. Among the authors is Alfred Robinson (b. 1806-d.1895), author of Life in California (1891). Four photographs of the Columbus Library in Seville, Spain comprise the fourth series. These black-and-white photos were taken in September 1955. The photographer, who included only his/her initials of "AK," indicated that the images are not available for publication. Finally, three items comprise ephemera. These include two 1891 arguments issued by the Supreme Court of the State of California relating to the case of C.E. Lataillade, Plaintiff and Appellant, vs. Gaspar Oreña, Defendant and Respondent. The final item in this series is an autographed note written on a fragment of an ANP-ANETA News Bulletin, dated April 23, 1951.
HM 70917