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The Vawter Tract : near Pasadena and in sight of the Great Raymond Hotel

Description: Old shelf number: eph J3-5 la puente. One of two tract maps on the same sheet of advertising by the firm Russell, Curtis and Sweetser, Real Estate agents. This is the western part of South Pasadena near the intersection of Pasadena Avenue and Monterey Road. Colony Street is now El Centro Street; Railroad Avenue is now Hawthorne Street. The verso contains information on land in Tulare County offered by the same firm. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Tulare County property offered.
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Date: January 1886
Call number: ephMPCALIFT0011a
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Map of the Town of Puente and part of the Puente Lot Tract, Los Angeles, Cal

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Old shelf number: eph J3-5. One of two tract maps on the same sheet of advertising by the firm Russell, Curtis and Sweetser, Real Estate agents. Description of town and history. Map is oriented with north-east at the top of the page. The verso contains information on land in Tulare County offered by the same firm (see RB ephMPCALIFT0011a). Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Tulare County property offered.

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Division No. 1 Raymond Improvement Company Tract. Adjoining Raymond Hotel Grounds, South Pasadena

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Verso note gives release date for map. Raymond Hotel to the north, Mission Street to the south, Fair Oaks to the west, SPRR to the east. "Raymond Improvement Company, W. G. Hughes, Secretary, 25 West First. St., Room 3, Los Angeles, or Office on the land, near Reservoir, south of Raymond Hotel." Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: MS notes: 257025 M--- of lots Release May 13/ 87..

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Boston Heights, City of Los Angeles / surveyed June, 1887, by V.J. Rowan

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Old shelf number: eph J5-6(1). Boston Heights is now considered part of Boyle Heights. Columbus Avenue, alias Alhambra Avenue is now Valley Blvd. Soto Street remains. For a view of the same area almost 40 years later, see RB ephMPCALIFT0128. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Sales information on July 11, 1887 sale. MS note: Eph J5-6(1).

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Raymond Hotel, South Pasadena

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Exterior view of the multi-story Raymond Hotel, with a porch that wraps around the entire building, in Pasadena, California (in what is now South Pasadena), in the final stages of construction. Men, presumably construction workers, stand on suspended platforms outside the upper level windows. A horse-drawn carriage and a few people are scattered out in front, which at this point is not landscaped.

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Hotel Green, Pasadena, Cal

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View looking north on Raymond Avenue at the Hotel Green complex, which comprised both buildings on either side of Raymond Avenue and walkway over the street.

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Map of the Diamond Street Tract, being a subdivision of Lot 5, Block 27, and Lot 4, Block 26, Hancock's Survey, City of Los Angeles, Cal

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Old shelf number: eph J5-5(1). Milton Avenue is now Hoover Street, the west boundary of the Pueblo of Los Angeles. Temple St. remains, but Diamond Street is now known as Beverly Blvd. This area just south of the Hollywood Freeway at Silver Lake. North is to the right. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Feet. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Sales info on Diamond Street tract. MS norw: Eph J5-5(1).

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The Vawter Tract : near Pasadena and in sight of the Great Raymond Hotel

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