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Sullivan, Ray
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Color pictorial map of San Francisco Bay Area. Showing recreational activities, agriculture, industry, residential areas, landmarks, light houses, etc. Relief shown pictorially. On verso 2 views of golden Gate and San Francisco Oakland Bridges, with explanation text. Date estimated. Includes decorative compass rose oriented with the north to the left margin.
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Mora, Jo (1876-1947)
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Comic pictorial map with vignettes and text. Mission pictures. Full color. This is the second and smaller California map made by Jo Mora. For more information on Jo Mora's life and works, see http://www.jomoratrust.com
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Jones, Lowell E.
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Date estimated.
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Kuchler, A.W.
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Full color. In order to fully understand this map, it is recommended that one read the related pages in the book, "Terrestrial Vegetation of California" that was published with the map, especially the 8 page Chapter 1, "Introduction", which explains some important information about the map. The book is available online at https://archive.org/details/terrestrialveget00barb
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Colton, J. H.
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See our #3507 and #170 for related maps. This map shows most of Alaska but not as far north as #3507. It is not clear where this map came from - it was folded to fit into a quarto sized book (not present here), and it may have been in the 1852 issue of the United States Register by John Disturnell, as #3507 was in the 1854 United States Register (see our 1861 U.S. Register by Disturnell with a smaller Colton Map). This map was also published in 1852 to accompany volume one of Richard Swainson Fisher's "The Book of The World", NY, J.H. Colton, two volumes, 8vo. It has the inset map of the gold regions, and the inset has been updated with many towns, etc. The main map has also been updated in the West, showing Utah, New Mexico, California, reduced Texas, etc. There is no inset map of South America as appears in the 1849 issue, and this map extends much further to the north to include most of Canada and about half of Alaska. All three of these maps were probably derived from Colton's Map of North America that is listed in his catalogues from 1851 to 1855 and is somewhat larger, we assume because of decorative borders. Strangely, that map is not found in any references. Without color. Includes view: Pyramid Lake, Upper California (i.e., Nevada)
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[Rheault, Jean-Louis, Carter, Paul, Mapformation]
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From the cover: "Researched and written by Paul Carter. Illustrated by Pictorial Map Artist Jean-Louis Rheault."
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United States. Post Office Department
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United States. Post Office Department
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United States. Post Office Department
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United States. Post Office Department
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United States. Post Office Department
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United States. Post Office Department
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United States. Post Office Department
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United States. Post Office Department
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United States. Post Office Department
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Marked up.
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United States. Post Office Department
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Marked up. San Francisco and Los Angeles Vicinity maps cut out and missing.
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United States. Post Office Department
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Marked up.
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United States. Post Office Department
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Marked up.
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United States. Post Office Department
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Anderson, John D.
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Date estimate based on stated population of almost 11,000,000.
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[Britton & Co., Hoadley, Milo]
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Scarce and early land sale map with a very early issue of Britton & Co.'s "Map of the City of San Francisco" and below it on the same sheet a larger "Map of the Beideman Tract..." Beideman owned several large parcels of land in the emerging areas of the city and this tract was one of the earliest to be sold in the newly annexed Western Addition. The Britton & Co. Map of San Francisco is the earliest issue that we have seen, followed by several issues in 1863 to 1867 by Gensoul and the San Francisco Municipal Reports and the San Francisco Directory (see our copies under Gensoul). The Norris catalog lists an 1859 Map of Hayes Tract also by M. Hoadley with lots to be sold at auction by H.A. Cobb, but the San Francisco map is not printed above the Hayes Tract map. One of the earliest San Francisco land sales maps. Covers area bounded by Laguna, Bush, Larkin and McAllister streets. Casastral map.
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Allardt, G. F.
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Sale maps of state tide lands in Marin are more scarce than those of San Francisco or the East Bay. Shows San Rafael and San Quentin and the railroad connecting them. Covers area from Corte Madera Canal (south of San Quentin) to Gallinas Canal. Grafton T. Brown was the first African American lithographer in San Francisco. Relief shown by hachures. Shows drainage, township and section lines, lot numbers, land ownership, ranchos, etc.
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California Development Board
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Printed in full color. Includes: California Steamship Lines, and statement about California Development Board. Updates railroads from the 1914 issue (see our 5311.000).
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Hinton, Henry
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Color pictorial psychedelic era inspired mapping of San Francisco by Henry Hinton. Includes a decorative title cartouche and compass rose. Packed with images of people and places, depicts historical and cultural sites, landmarks, buildings, streets, freeways, parks and recreational facilities. The much loathed Embarcadero Freeway, now demolished, is depicted in the map’s upper right corner.
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Scudder, Kirby
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Color pictorial map by Kirby Scudder, shows Silicon Valley occupying practically all the real estate from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. The expanse from the west to the east coast of the US is depicted in bands with the Pacific Ocean in the foreground, then I-280 then US 101, then the San Francisco Bay and in the far distance the Atlantic Ocean. In the foreground bands there are depicted many high tech companies, advertising and communication companies, business and distributors of digital contents, along with Stanford, the San Francisco Bay, Cal Berkeley, then at left is Lake Tahoe and the Rockies, and at right Los Angeles.
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Allardt, G. F.
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Another tide lands sale map, this one showing two separate areas titled "Salt Marsh and Tide Lands at North Beach" and "Salt Marsh and Tide Lands Along Mission Creek and Mission Bay." Shows drainage, block and lot numbers, etc. Covers area bounded generally by Mission, 20th, Mississippi, and Channel Streets; covers area bounded by the Bay, Webster and Lombard Streets, and the Presidio. Cadastral maps. Scale of 2nd map 1:6,000.
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Allardt, G. F.
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Cadastral map showing drainage, block and lot numbers, railroads, wharves, etc. Covers area from China Basin to Islais Creek. One of a series of maps published between 1869 and 1873 showing tidelands to be sold by order of the Board of Tide Land Commissioners.
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U.S. Geological Survey
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Covers San Francisco and San Pablo Bay areas. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Shows wetlands, roads, streets, buildings, railroads, etc. Title in upper margin: Topography, California, San Francisco Bay and vicinity. "Culture revision of San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, and Richmond in 1913-1914. R.B. Marshall, Chief Geographer. Owned by Michael Moore.
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Allardt, G. F.
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This map is double the size of the usual tide land maps and shows the shore of the east bay from Oakland north to Point San Pablo. Cadastral map showing drainage, township and section lines, land ownership, ranchos, lot numbers, railroads, etc. Hand colored (for uncolored copy see our 3972). Printed on 2 sheets, mounted together.
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Allardt, G. F.
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This map is double the size of the usual tide land maps and shows the shore of the east bay from Oakland north to Point San Pablo. Cadastral map showing drainage, township and section lines, land ownership, ranchos, lot numbers, railroads, etc. Map is without color (for hand colored copy see our 4470). Printed on 2 sheets, mounted together.
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Putnam, Claude George
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Color pictorial map of California, showing the location of missions, with a brief history of the many missions founded by Miguel Jose Serra. By Claude George Putnam, who was responsible for many pictorial maps of regions. Published by Wm. L. Newman. The border depicts 21 views with name and date of founding of the California Missions. Includes views and portrait of Padre Junipero Serra, founder of the California Missions in the upper left corner. Includes Franciscan Arms, early California Missions and compass rose oriented with north to the upper right. Relief shown pictorially and by shading.
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Anonymous
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Engraved map in Russian of Northern California and Mexico, Baja California. Shows international and administrative boundaries, cities, towns, rivers and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Date is estimated based on showing of Pyramid Lake from the Fremont 1845 map. The map appears to have been published in Russia as a separate map, not in any reports we can locate. It shows the Russian settlement at Fort Ross on the California coast. It might have been a map advocating for increased Russian exploration and settlement in California. There is no mention of the gold rush on the map, thus it is likely to have been published before 1849. We have not been able to located any other copies at libraries.
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[Kuechler, A.W., Kuchler, A.W.]
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[Disney, Walt, Standard Oil Company of California]
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Colored pictorial map of the 48 states, signed by Walt Disney. Showing Disney scene & characters head towards golden Gate exposition. A promotional map sponsored by Standard Oil Company of California and Travel Tykes Weekly Magazine. The map is filled with vignettes in each of the states and provinces of Canada, showing Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck engaged in activities reflective of the tourism or indigenous commerce or industry of the state. Around borders there are comic strip panels from the Travel Tykes Weekly Magazine or from service stations are numbered & were to be cut out & pasted in proper place on the map. On verso shows Mickey and Donald at the Fair, featuring vignettes on the major attractions of the Golden Gate Exposition.
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Jeppesen and Company
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A color relief map of State of California. Shows administrative boundaries, major cities, towns, rivers, roads, railroads and highways. Relief shown by shading. Includes index to counties.
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Owens, Charles H.
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Date estimated.
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Topographical Auto Road Map Co.
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An advertisement for Shattuck Hotel, panoramic view of Central and Northern California, 25x59, on sheet 31x65 by Britton & Rey, Lithographers, produced for the Topographical Auto Road Map Co. in San Francisco. Shows roads, highways, cities, towns, hotels, missions, mountains, rivers, wooded areas and lakes. Relief shown by shadings and pictorially. Date estimated. Includes legend and extensive index of places of interest on verso. At upper panel "For index and valuable information see reverse side."
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U.S. Geological Survey
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This is a duplicate copy of our 5742.000. Covers San Francisco and San Pablo Bay areas. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Shows wetlands, roads, streets, buildings, railroads, etc. Title in upper margin: Topography, California, San Francisco Bay and vicinity. "Culture revision of San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley, and Richmond in 1913-1914. R.B. Marshall, Chief Geographer." Owned by Michael Moore.
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[Ransom, Leander, 1800 - 1874, California Academy of Natural Sciences.]
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"The Earliest Commercially Printed Map of California to Show the Baselines and Meridians in California. A remarkable early map of Califiornia, published by Leander Ransom for the California Academy of Natural Sciences and lithographed in San Francisco by B.F. Butler. The map is one of the first maps of the state of California printed in California. We have dated the map at 1853, which is the first year of the Academy. Vodges dates the map as "some time in the fifties." Rowell dates the map as "185-". This is the only map of which we are aware the records the lines of equal variation of the compass, or Magnetic Needle."(Ruderman) Date estimated. Showing county boundaries, townships, and Land Offices. Townships and ranges are numbered. Includes explanation. Leander Ransom was born in Colchester, Connecticut and educated in New York. Came to California in 1851 with Samuel D. King, who was the U. S. Surveyor General for California. They arrived in San Francisco on June 14, 1851. From July 1851 to September 1851, Ransom conducted the first Public Land Survey in California as Deputy Surveyor. The Mount Diablo Principal Meridian and Base Line extending from the Mount Diablo Initial Point, established on July 17, 1851 by Ransom, controls Public Land Surveys within two-thirds of California and all of Nevada. B.F. Butler was one of the earliest lithographers working in San Francisco. Butler was the lithographer for Eddy's map of San Francisco, published in 1851.
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[Uren, Charles Edward, Bradley & Co.]
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Hand colored manuscript map of two heavy slides of earth that obstructed the tracks of the Central Pacific Railway near Alta California. From historical records it appears that the map may detail two slides that occurred along the railroad. The largest slide occurred in the Spring of 1866 during construction of the railroad and is shown in the center of the map with damages and repairs to the various ditches that ran through the area. The April 21, 1866 edition of the Dutch Flat Enquirer mentions "LAND SLIDE.—A huge land slide occurred a few days since near Buckley's ranch, just above this place, on the line of the C. P. Railroad, damaging the ditches of the Dutch Flat Water Company to the amount of several thousand dollars, and rendering a change of the railroad bed necessary, which will also cost an immense sum. Nearly a quarter section, extending along a heavy fill of the railroad several hundred yards, suddenly gave way and moved off in a solid body, taking with it ditches, flumes and everything else that obstructed its course, and making a change from the original survey of the railroad at that point imperative. The material that gave way, it seems, was of a soapy or pipe clay formation, and the pressure from the railroad fill is assigned as the cause." We estimate the map was drawn by Uren in 1880, looking back at that 1866 slide and also showing the recent 1880 slide that blocked the tracks in the upper left part of the map. The 1880 slide was recorded in the Scientific American issue Volume 42, noting that hydraulic mining techniques were used to blast away the debris covering the tracks. The map is unusual in showing illustrations of two Chinese Camps near the railroad line. With decorative compass rose, oriented with the north to upper left margin. Map showing railroad, steam engine, two views of Chinese camps, slide areas and views of Flume and water ditches. Date estimated. Uren writes his name on the map as E.C. Uren while we believe he is Charles Edward Uren.
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[California Geological Survey, Hoffmann, Charles F., Whitney, J.D.]
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Thin paper copy with some variation from the thick paper copy in the lower left corner. Southeast sheet of four maps.
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[California Geological Survey, Hoffmann, Charles F., Whitney, J.D.]
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Thin paper copy with some variation from the thick paper copy in the lower left corner. Southeast sheet of four maps.
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[King, M. G. (Malcolm G.), William J. Dingee]
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Uncolored lithographic map. Shows drainage, block numbers, ownership of large parcels, railroads, charter line, Oakland Harbor improvements, etc. Includes location map. Covers also Emeryville, Piedmont and Albany. Oriented with north toward left. Jackson, Vandercook & Melvin advertisement on verso. David Rumsey Collection copy: has annotations in black and col. pencil.
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