Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Old shelf number: eph J5-12(1). Whittier got its charter and was incorporated in 1898, so map postdates that. For a pre-charter map of Whittier, see RB ephMPCALIF0034. County Road is now Whittier Blvd. Based on the Baldwin, Jessup & Co. map, the city has expanded. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Blueprint. Verso Text: MS notes: Eph J5-12(1). Map of the City of Whittier.
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Old shelf number: eph J5-11(2). Mormon Island is a peninsula located between Berths 1 and 5 in the Port of Los Angeles (Wilmington). Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Blueprint. Verso Text: MS note: Eph J5-11(2). Stamp: W.F. Stein Blueprinter, Los Angeles.
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Old shelf number: eph J5-18(1). This map divides the interests of Porter Land & Water Co., George K. Porter, and B.F. Porter by hand colored boundaries. Shows Catalina Pico and Rinaldi ranch holdings, the towns of "Fernando" and "Chatsworth-Park." MS notes on property use and disposition. Olin G. McWain, whose stamp is on the verso, did not start working as a blueprint and map printer until 1898, based on Los Angeles directories of the time; the company continued until at least 1920 in the Byrne Building. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Blue print copy. Verso Text: MS notes: Eph J5-18(1). Blueprint of Rancho Ex Mission de San Fernando, Los Angeles, Calif. Stamp: Olin G. McWain Blue Printing and Map Mounting, Byrne Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal.
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Old shelf number: eph J5-19(2). Detailed map of San Pedro with filling operations underway to build slips. Huntington mentioned as developing one of these. Three descriptive paragraphs on San Pedro. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: Eph J5-19(2) San Pedro.
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Manuscripts
Also: copy of telegram from Hood to Henry E. Huntington, 1892 August 7 and two memos; report on cost of building breakwater at Santa Monica Bay; blueprint map of Great Salt Lake area; blueprint map of Santa Monica Bay showing location of proposed breakwater. Subjects: Santa Monica, Los Angeles port, railroad ties.
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Old shelf number: eph J5-3(1). Three copies of this map in the same folder. This is in the Silver Lake area of Los Angeles. Elysian Park Ave is now Sunset Blvd. Childs Avenue is now Griffith Park Blvd. This map missing upper portion. Schmidt Lithograph was only listed at the Downey Block address in Los Angeles in the few years leading up to 1890. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: Eph J5-3(1).
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