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Automobile roads of Central and Southern California

Description: No old shelf mark. Title from verso. Advertising surrounds the map and the verso emphasizing tire replacement and repair. Advertisement for Hotel Clark on the verso locates the hotel as "situated opposite beautiful Central Park"; Central Park was renamed Pershing Square in 1918. Submaps: San Francisco area; Los Angeles area. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Advertising copy.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: [ca. 1920]
Call number: ephMPCALIFR0004
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Automobile road map of Southern California

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Old shelf number: eph J2d. This same map appears on the verso of several Los Angeles maps. At head of title: "Security Trust & Savings Bank." For earlier editions of this map, see RB ephMPCALIF0050 & ephMPCALIF0064; for a later edition, see RB ephMPCALIF0065; for another 1923 version, see RB 258713. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS note Eph J2d. Submaps: San Diego County; Ventura and Santa Barbara; Central California.

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Puente Oil Co's. road map showing the best motor routes in Central and Southern California : compliments of Puente Oil Company Los Angeles

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No old shelf mark. Close up map of Pasadena does not show Rose Bowl started in 1922, indicating these maps are earlier. "Published and copyrighted" statement from cover. Detailed city maps in surround. Verso has additional maps. Submaps: Pomona; Riverside; Santa Ana; El Centro; Redlands; San Bernardino; Imperial; Brawley; Pasadena. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Submaps: Central California; San Diego; Imperial Valley to Yuma.

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Watercolor rendering of Central Park (Pershing Square), Los Angeles, approximately 1910

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Watercolor rendering by artist J. F. Dupre for the revitalization of and improvements to Central Park (Pershing Square) in downtown Los Angeles. The design is from the architecture firm of Parkinson and Bergstrom, who devised a new landscape plan for the park area bordered by Olive, Hill, 5th and 6th Streets, around 1910. Central Park was created in downtown Los Angeles in 1866, and experienced multiple changes to its design. The rendering depicts the plan to change the park by arranging it in an axial formation with wider paths to accommodate increasing traffic, a large fountain as the focal point of the intersections, balustrades at the entrances, and concrete coping surrounding the park. The plan was implemented and the park remained in this arrangement for decades. During World War I, the park was the scene of soldier receptions and speeches, and in 1918 the park was renamed "Pershing Square" after General John J. Pershing.

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Security Trust & Savings Bank automobile road map of the Los Angeles region

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No old shelf number. Comprehensive map of paved roads in the region shown in red. For earlier editions of this map, see RB 258713, ephMPCALIF0050, ephMPCALIF0064, and ephMPCALIFR0003. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Three submaps: Routes in San Diego County; Ventura and Santa Barbara; Central California.

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Photograph album of automobile road trips in Owens Valley, California

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A photograph album of group automobile trips chiefly through the Owens Valley, California area in 1932, including visits to the towns of Lone Pine, Panamint City, and Independence; hiking in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains; rifle shooting; and drives to mines and mining camps. Several images depict the filming of the Western movie "Flaming Guns" (1932) around Lone Pine, showing the film crew and actor Tom Mix. The unknown photographer may have been working at the Natural Soda Products Company plant, which was situated on the dry lakebed of Owens Lake near Keeler, as there are several images of the mineral plant, the Keeler swimming pool, and a small bedroom captioned "my room at N.S.P. Co." Other images show an Easter service in Keeler, the Cerro Gordo Mine, Estelle Mine, Onion Valley, and in Nevada, the towns of Lida and Goldfield. There are also travel scenes with friends and family in Southern California, including Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, Palos Verdes peninsula, and crowds at a Christian Endeavor convention in Whittier.

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A pictorial map of the Edison electrical service system in Central and Southern California

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Verso is a brief history of the development of electric power in Southern California. Vignettes: Short history and views. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: shaded, hachures. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: A Brief Outline of events in the building of Central and Southern California's Great Community Electrical Enterprise.

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