Skip to content

OPEN TODAY: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.

Tickets

Visual Materials

Map of the property to be sold at auction Saturday, Jan 23rd, 1886 by order of Los Angeles Improvement Co. sale peremptory



You might also be interested in

  • Image not available

    Special and peremptory auction sale by order Los Angeles Improvement Co. Dec. 22nd 1885

    Visual Materials

    Old shelf number: eph J5-2(3). An area to the east of map ephMPCALIFT0119. Just south of the Hollywood Freeway. Verso gives sales information in glowing terms. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Sales info on this auction. MS note: Eph J5-2(3).

    ephMPCALIFT0120

  • Image not available

    Map of the City of Whittier Los Angeles Co. California

    Visual Materials

    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.

    ephMPCALIF0035

  • Image not available

    Map of the Los Angeles Improvement Co's subdivision of parts of lots 3, 4, 5 & 6, Block 39 Hancock's Survey, to be sold at auction Friday May 14th 1886 / compiled by W.F. McClun, C.E

    Visual Materials

    Old shelf number: eph J5-2(1). An area to the east of Alvarado St. and just south of the Hollywood Freeway, east as far as Union St. The next two maps are extensions of this one, although this is the latest part mapped. Verso contains sales info on this hilly area. "These building sites have advantages over other property in the City of Los Angeles. On the Hills! Away from Floods!" Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: Eph J5-2(1). Sales information on this property.

    ephMPCALIFT0119

  • Image not available

    Map of the Pickering Land and Water Co's. subdivision of the John M. Thomas Ranch, Los Angeles County, Cal

    Visual Materials

    Old shelf number: eph J5-12(2). County Road is now Whittier Blvd. For a map of this area after it became incorporated Whittier, see RB ephMPCALIF0035. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note: Eph J5-12(2).

    ephMPCALIF0034

  • Image not available

    Map of Long Beach : the new sea-side resort on the American Colony Tract Los Angeles Co. Cal from surveys made 1882-1887 / by Charles T. Healey

    Visual Materials

    Old shelf number: eph J5-16(4). Today's downtown Long Beach. Ocean Park Ave. became Ocean Blvd. Note that the line between Ranch Los Cerritos and Rancho Los Alamitos is preserved today by Alamitos Avenue. Submap: Sketch showing relative position of Long Beach to lines of Railway Travel 1887. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: Eph J5-16(4). Long Beach L6 No. 21 224 No. 72.

    ephMPCALIF0036

  • Image not available

    Lands of the Pasadena Improvement Company, Los Angeles Co., Cal

    Visual Materials

    Old shelf number: eph J5-17(1). Piedmont Drive is now Altadena Drive. This map shows subdivisions to the west of Lake Avenue and north of Woodbury Road. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: Eph J5-17(1). P2/4 Part of Pasadena 32a Sticker: No. 24. Pasadena Improvement Co. founded in 1887. Pasadena & Mt. Wilson Railway Co. founded in 1897, sold to Pacific Electric Railway Co. in 1902 (Fickewirth, page 103).

    ephMPCALIFT0144