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San Marino, CA 91108

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For the third edition, see RB 82223. Alternate title from cover. Texas is now separated from Mexico and the US. Tahoe is Flag Lake. Submaps: Vera Cruz; Road from Vera Cruz to Mexico. MS note: 82223. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.
82223

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For the fourth edition of this map, see RB 82223. A statistical table gives information about the various states including Upper California. Submap: Map of the Roads &c. from Vera Cruz & Alvarado to Mexico. Prime meridian: Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Azimuthal. Printing Process: Engraving.
43180
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271396

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California is grossly distorted. With 2 inset Tables, and: "Map of the roads & from Vera Cruz & Alvarado to Mexico." Inside cover has MS notes: Seth B. Thornton, Capt. 2nd U.S. Dragoons, Monterey, Mexico, Sept 25th, 1846. A hard fight but we have then [?] Stronghold, to the brave lead regiment in [?]. Another hand: AH. Pitkin July 26, 83. "Entered according to Act of Congress, 2nd day of April, 1832, by H. S. Tanner of the State of Pennsylvania." "Constructed from a great variety of printed and manuscript documents by H. S. Tanner." Lettered on cover: Tanner's travelling map of Mexico. Prime meridian: Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.
1946
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One of 11 maps bound together into a red leather case.The 10 other state maps by Tanner, hinged in the same vol. : (21818) New York. 1827 (21819) Pennsylvania and New Jersey. 1827 (21820) Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. 1827 (21821) Kentucky and Tennessee. 1827 (21822) Ohio and Indiana. 1827 (21823) North & South Carolina. 1827 (21824) Georgia and Alabama. 1827 (21825) Louisiana and Mississippi. 1827 (21826) Illinois and Missouri. 1827 (21827) Florida. 1827 Maine is generously extended beyond the 48th parallel. Cartouche: Rocky coast of Maine. Submap: Northern tip of Maine. Prime meridian: GM, Washington. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, and a few account books related to the business activities of Henry Douglas Bacon. Subject matter includes banking methods in the 1850s; the failure of Page & Bacon and Page, Bacon & Co.; the financing of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad; land transactions in Missouri and Illinois; mines and mining properties in the western United States; the wine and citrus industries in Southern California; the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley Railroad; the purchase, boundaries, and subdivision of the Marengo Ranch (now the city of South Pasadena, CA); the construction of the Raymond Hotel in Pasadena, CA. Significant persons represented in the collection include: Henry Douglas Bacon, Julia Ann Page Bacon, Samuel Latham Mitchell Barlow, William Tell Coleman, Samuel Gaty, Daniel Dearborn Page, Francis W. Page, Henry Starr, and Thomas M. Yerkes.
BC 998, 1139, 1275, 1361, 1408-1415