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[U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey., United States Department of Commerce.]
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Nautical chart of the San Francisco Bay, California. 23rd. edition: Aug. 1941. "Anchorage Chart M". Surveys to 1938. Relief shown by contours, spot heights and hachures. Depths shown by isolines and soundings. Soundings in Fathoms at mean lower water. Heights in feet. Includes anchorage data chart, magnetic variation compasses, tidal information, authorities, abbreviations, topographic and descriptive text. "Price 75 cents."
Author
Wilkes, Charles
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This is a very rare separate issue of this map. It is unnumbered. Numbered issues were printed in the 1858 Atlas Vol. II of Vol. XXIII of the Wilkes Expedition publications, Hydrography. of which only 100 copies were printed. Inset map is based on Beechy's survey of the harbor. The 1858 publication date is estimated only, this map might have been issued earlier, although at this time it is impossible to know. The map is dated 1841 and was likely drawn then and based on surveys at that time.
Author
[British Admiralty, Alden, James]
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Large format British Admiralty chart of West Coast of the United States. Showing San Francisco Bay, extending to Drake Bay, Vallejo, Petaluma Creek, and Oakland, as surveyed by James Alden of the U.S. Coast Survey and the British shortly after the discovery of Gold in California. Shows inland detail identifying roads, landings, buildings, and detailed street grid in major cities. Includes topographic features. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights in feet. Depth shown by soundings in Fathoms. Includes text, notes, and 3 rhumb lines pointing to the north.
Author
U.S. Coast Survey
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Has an official certification letter attached - probably used in a lawsuit. 1st edition. Scale is 1/40,000. Descended from the 1859 San Francisco Bay Entrance, with later editions to 1897 (see Vogdes). Below neat line stamped in blue ink is "Aids to Navigation corrected for information received to Apr 11 1905". Colored chart. Chart 5532. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Soundings in fathom, except on the tinted surfaces in feet.
Author
U.S. Coast Survey
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Published the year after the earthquake. We can find no mention on the map of the earthquake of 1906 nor any change in the delineation of the built area of San Francisco, even though the earthquake destroyed half the city. Chart is without color. Chart 5532. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Depths shown by soundings. Soundings in fathom, except on the dotted surfaces in feet.
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