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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Artists: Wallace, Ray Companies: Pacific Mail Steamship Company
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Six plans are: "Lines / 3/8 IN. = 1 FT." ; [Details of vessel] ; "Detail Sheet No. 2" ; "Outboard Profile / Scale: 1/4 IN = 1 FT" ; "Sail Plan Sheet No. 2 / Scale: 1/4" = 1' "; "Inboard Profile / Deck Plan / Scale 1/4 In. 1 FT". "Table of Offsets"--small sheet laid in with the six plans. The California was built in 1848 by Wm. H. Webb of New York for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company and these drawings are recreations of the ship based on research done by Mr. Shaw; the plans, which may have been used by ship model builders, contain numerous details, including rigging, outboard profile, and planking. Measurements are for the largest sheet. Focus of item: California (1848-1866 ; 1872-1874).
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The map is within a printed frame, the title is printed above and below this frame; in the left corner above the frame is an image of the Spirit of the Pacific and in the right corner is an image of the Spirit of the Atlantic, sculptures by Isidore Konti from the 1904 World's Fair (Louisiana Purchase Exposition) which marked the 100th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. "Copyright, 1923, in Canada and the United States by the Candian Pacific Railway / Engraved and printed at the Matthews-Northrup Works, Buffalo, N.Y."--text, small type, lower left corner of the map. Poster backed by linen and is tacked onto two wood dowels; meant to hang as a wall map. "C.P.R. World Map"--on verso, in ms., in pencil.
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"LP563"--on verso, lower left corner, in ms., in pink pencil. "C.Rmekkr $50-"--on verso, lower right corner, in ms., in pencil. Focus of item: Great Republic.
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"Scale 12' to 1""--in ms., in pencil, along lower right edge. "$250--"--in ms., in pencil, lower right corner. "TM662"--on verso, in ms., in pencil. "21x31 1/2"--on verso, in ms. in pencil, right corner. The Sonora, launched 1 October 1853, was operated by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company from 1854 to 1868; she was dismantled and broken up in Sausalito. Focus of item: Sonora.
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Some color was printed using tints. "JRN/$225.--as is"--on lower right hand corner, in ms, in pencil. "TS1864"--on verso, in ms, in pencil. Focus of item: Henry Chauncey.
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