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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Most of the rail routes shown are marked "proposed". Extracted from Johnson's New Illustrated... Family Atlas, 1864. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Historical and Statistical View Mexico and Central America. Historical and Statistical view of the United States, 1860. 78 MS notes: 1864 Calif.
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After Treaty of 1853 but before vertical statehood separation of Arizona and New Mexico. Note also eastern boundary of California violated by Nevada Territory. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Includes Gadsden Purchase, but Arizona and New Mexico are shown horizontally split across the territory as the south hoped would be set. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Conic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes; 167 1.50 244958.
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The western United States before Nevada with Arizona Territory encompassing only the Gadsden Purchase ; other states extend much further eastward than today's boundaries. May have been extracted from the 1858 edition of Colton's General Atlas. Border: flowered Submap: Vicinity of San Francisco. MS note: 1859. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: 252068.
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These maps may be seperates from G. W. Colton's General Atlas of the World, New York, 1883. Page numbers 78 and 79 indicate this was to be in a bound volume. MS note: 264891. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: Pg 12x 1882 2 sheets Calif..
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No old shelf mark. Form an atlas, possibly Colton? Penciled note describes as 1871 - this matches the county lines for both Arizona and New Mexico at the time. Verso map of Mexico. MS notes: #126 Territorial $3.00 1871. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Map of Mexico 122.
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