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Plan de la Ciudad De Los Angeles

Description: Facsimile."Los Angeles City Map No. 1. Lieutenant E. O. C. Ord's 1849 survey of the "Cuidad de Los Angeles," reproduced by the Historical Society of Southern California, from the original map, through the courtesy of Robert Dominguez, City Clerk of Los Angeles, in whose office the original is preserved. $148.70" Prime meridian: Gm. Relief: hachures. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1936
Call number: 219627
Creator: Ord, Edward Otho Cresap (1818-1883)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 61 x 64 cm
Associated people: Hutton, Wm. R. (1826-1901.)
Associated organization: Historical Society of Southern California.
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Plan de la Ciudad de Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Original map dated 1849 August 29. Hachures, numbered sections, key to map details. Facsimile. Alt title supplied by cataloger.

mssSolano SR_Map_0272

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Plan de...Los Angeles

Manuscripts

mssHM 28668

Los Angeles : partial street plan

Manuscripts

Featuring part of Ord's Survey and Blocks 36-39, Hancock's Survey, with surface detail: dense hachures, line of Donation Lots in red, waterway, roads & streets. Appears to be traced from Ord's 1849 Plan of the City of Los Angeles and Hancock's 1857 map of the confirmed limits of Los Angeles. Title supplied by cataloger.

mssSolano SR_Map_0339

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Plan de la Ciudad de los Angeles / surveyed and drawn by E.O.C. Ord Lt. U.S.A Wm. R. Hutton Aßt. August 29th 1849

Visual Materials

No old shelf mark. This reprint of Ord's map has an explanatory sheet separate from the map. The map contains additional MS notes "City Clerk 15 1P 33 66 at seq. miscellaneous Arthur Bra(?) $148.70 59." Gift note with map indicates 1967 possible print date. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.

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The city of the saints, and the city of the angels, or a trip to San Bernardino and Los Angeles

Manuscripts

American solider Edward Otho Cresap Ord gives an account of his travels through California, to San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and Santa Barbara in particular. He was under orders to "make sundry examinations and investigations" in that region. He arrived at Santa Barbara via the coasting steamer "Sea Bird," and makes much observation of the native people. Dated 1849, August.

mssHM 40683

Plan de la Ciudad de Los Angeles : tracing of the large parcels to the east of Main Street

Manuscripts

Names of parcel owners added in pencil, along with a plotting apparently of one of the water ditches from the Los Angeles River, Hansen, Map of the Mill seat of Messrs . . . Scott and Stearns, August 3, 1856). Base map is from the Ord Survey of 1849. Hachures, structures. Title supplied by cataloger.

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