Rare Books
Map of a portion of Los Angeles County showing the Abel Stearns Ranchos
You might also be interested in
Image not available
Map of a portion of Los Angeles County showing the Abel Stearns Ranchos
Rare Books
Alfred Robinson is the trustee for the Los Angeles and San Bernardino Land Office in San Francisco presiding over the breakup of the Abel Stearns lands in current Los Angeles and Orange counties. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 219201.
219201
Image not available
Map of portions of east Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County, and Riverside County
Rare Books
Map of portions of east Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County, and Riverside County showing railroads, forest and timber reserves and ranchos.
646510
Image not available
Rancho Los Alamitos... owned by Abel Stearns
Manuscripts
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
Map of the San Pasqual Plantation : also showing portion of Los Angeles County, California
Rare Books
Note included in folder with map states, "This map of the San Pasqual Plantation was enclosed in a letter which J. W. North wrote to his wife from Los Angeles, July 22, 1870. It was photostated by the County Surveyor's office of Los Angeles County in July of 1943. That office had a similar map of the 'H. G. Monk Tract' which was platted in 1883. Mary H. Shepard." The back of the note reveals her address as 469 Miles St., Pasadena 5. An MS note indicates a positive photo is in with the North letter in the MS. Dept., and a negative copy in the Photo Dept. Description for sales. MS note: 255611 MS additional property lines. Stamp for R. M. Widnet, Attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent, Los Angeles, Cal.. Relief: hachures. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
255611
Image not available
Map of the Subdivision of the Rancho Addition to San Jose and Portion of the Rancho San Jose, Los Angeles County, Calif
Manuscripts
Collection of maps surveyed for the Los Angeles County Assessor's Office between 1860 and 1897. The maps primarily focus on excavations, improvements, and expansions of roads throughout Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Orange Counties, with geographic coverage ranging from Malibu to Pomona and Newhall to San Juan Capistrano. Most of the maps show boundary lines of the various Ranchos existent throughout these counties, and many also include buildings, railroads, telegraph lines, land use, relief, and elements of the natural landscape such as canyons and rivers. Also included are maps showing the San Gabriel Mission, San Juan Capistrano Mission, and an elevation of the Los Angeles County court house. Some of the Ranchos depicted include San Antonio, Azusa, San Jose, Los Nogales, San Pedro, San Joaquin, San Rafael, Centinela, La Puente, Sausal Redondo, La Ballona, Rodeo-de-las-Aguas, Cienega, San Pasqual, and San Francisquito. Property shown includes that of Elias 'Lucky' Baldwin, Pio Pico, and Abel Stearns. The maps were originally housed in 16 bound volumes.
LARM_Vol_B_19.01
Map of the Ranchos Belonging to Abel Stearns in the Counties of Los Angeles, San Bernardino
Manuscripts
Showing surface details, structures, acreage, San Gabriel River; Stearns' parcels outlined in color. Alt title supplied by cataloger.
mssSolano SR_Box_32(27).04