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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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MS notes indicate sold lots with prices. "Lot 2 - Block 12 - 7.71 acres $7500.00 176 avacados planted Sept. 1924, 47 avacados planted Sept. 1925." "Designed by Charles N. Cheney, Town Planner Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. Engineering Offices of J. B. Lippincott Los Angeles, Calif. 2-17-28" Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: HL sticker: 128824.
128824
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A map showing colonies and land for sale around Fresno, Cal. Submap: Map of Summer and Winter Resorts and other places upon or near The Central & Southern Pacific Railroads in California. MS note: 293247. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Descriptive text regarding Fresno County and the virtues of two tracts for sale.
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Old shelf number: eph J4-11(4). Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: Eph J4-11(4).
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Detailed map from Santa Barbara south to below Summerland. MS Note: 372346. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Blue line print. Verso Text: MS Note: 372346.
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Old shelf number: eph J4-13(8). For a contemporary birds-eye view of the sort advertised at the bottom of the page, see RB 235524. Prime meridian: gm. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: Eph J4-13(8).
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Old shelf number ephJ5-21(2). Submap notes showing the "proposed city" at the terminus of the Los Angeles and Independence Railroad, then in competition with the Southern Pacific Railroad for the location of Los Angeles Harbor. See also RB Broadsides 253359 for another copy, smaller in size. Submap: Map of Santa Monica Harbor showing site of proposed city Ocean Terminus of Los Angeles and Independence Railroad 1875. Paste-ons of July 16, 1875 sales report from Evening Express with vivid reports of the sale. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: The Coming City - in praise of Santa Monica. Bad mouths Wilmington Harbor.
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