‎California‎

‎[CALIFORNIA]. ROCK ISLAND LINES‎

‎Kingdom of the Sun: Southern Arizona and California‎

‎Chicago Rock Island Lines 1946. 1946. 15" x 9". Brochure folds to form 24 pages. Printed in orange and black by Rand McNally. Illustrated with b/w halftone photographs; map and drawings. Fine. No signatures or bookplates. Includes information on: Palm Springs - La Quinta; San Diego; Santa Barbara; El Paso Texas; Tucson & Phoenix Arizona; Guaymas Mexico; Los Angeles. No Binding. Fine. Chicago, Rock Island Lines, 1946. unknown‎

Referencia librero : 305397

‎[CALIFORNIA -- MAPS]. [WHITE, Albert C, VINCENZ, Jean L]‎

‎Land use district maps adopted by ordinance No. 2491 of the City of Fresno California. City Planning Commission. . . .‎

‎Fresno CA: City Planning Commission 1938. Oblong folio. 13.5 x 9.25 in. 17 blueprint maps variously numbered. w/ first map as the Key Map for the remainders. Stapled at gutter margin w/ protective green-tinted back softcover folded to provide reinforcement at spine from the library of George Reed Volker 1925-2018 former World War II pilot and urban planner in California New York and Washington State. First editions of these exceedingly scarce land use district zoning maps drawn up in 1938 after the passage of the 1937 Housing Act which unfortunately upended much of the spending not only by the WPA but also required any federal money to spent in “blighted†areas. These detailed maps show major streets demarcate singe family housing multi-family housing manufacturing and commercial bases for the community. Eventually the Public Housing which was built in Fresno during World War II began in West Fresno or “Chinatown first with the Sequoia Courts and later the Sierra Plaza followed by others. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Bibliography of Research Projects Reports W.P.A. Technical Series Research and Records Projects Bibliography No. 1 Feb. 2 1940 p. 53 Zoning Ordinance. City Planning Commission, paperback‎

Referencia librero : 56963

‎[California – Business History – Labor] DeMoulin, Ulysses Sordet‎

‎Life History of Ulysses Sordet DeMoulin and History of Demoulin Family‎

‎Greenville Illinois 1954. Two stapled packets of mimeographed typed pages eighty-seven and twenty-eight pages with one signed. Excellent to Near Fine. An autobiography and genealogy written by Ulysses S. DeMoulin 1871–1955 founder of DeMoulin Bros. a uniform manufacturing company which now mainly supplies marching band attire. The genealogy incorrectly traces the family’s history back to French Revolutionary figure Camille Desmoulins though it appears accurate otherwise. It includes a description of early Sebastopol Highland Illinois with a simple map. In the autobiography which is told in a large number of short anecdotes DeMoulin discusses his childhood and early life in Jamestown and Sebastopol and goes into detail about the early years of his company beginning with the formation of the Modern Woodmen of America fraternal organization for which the company supplied uniforms and items used in ‘rituals’. DeMoulin used the profits from this enterprise to invest in a number of others including a mine near Gold Hill Colorado and oil drilling land in Illinois. However the most interesting portions of the autobiography concern DeMoulin’s role in the development of agriculture in California’s Imperial Valley.<br /> <br /> DeMoulin first travels to southern California in 1903 happening to meet several engineers involved with the Imperial Irrigation System who take him to see the new town of Brawley:<br /> <br /> “Here by lantern light we sat around on the ground in the evening discussing many kinds of farm lands and if soft hard or sandy. We slept in ‘remadas’ made by setting posts to protrude about twelve feet above the ground which were then braced and divided into small box-like stalls. The remada was then covered with tree branches and a huge heavy taupalin sic curtain hung over the sides and front at night to keep out the dust of which you might find two or three inches at your door in the morning. A pitcher of water and a bowl were your only means of bathing. There were no streets in Brawley at this time only trails as the town had not yet been surveyed having only been founded in October 1902. People were living in tents while waiting for completion of hotel accommodations and other living quarters under construction.â€<br /> <br /> DeMoulin begins buying land in the Brawley area to rent to farmers and traveling to the area regularly. He describes the building of the Laguna Dam spending a week at the workers’ camp “at which time I slept in the workmen’s crudely-built bunks and ate with them at the long rough pine tablesâ€; and befriends author Harold Bell Wright. He also witnesses several conflicts with the IWW:<br /> <br /> “In 1908 there moved into Brawley about 200 International Workmen of the World or more familiarly known as ‘I.W.W.’s’ I won’t Work and in command was a Captain Stanley. However as most unwelcome guests they proceeded to join a strike in the cantaloupe sheds and inserting razor blades into apples the strikers threw them at workers. ‘Goons’ also tried to interfere with the trucking operations from the fields to the packing sheds. I recall of one driver telling a goon that if he even attempted to place a foot in his truck he would shoot him. And defying the driver the goon was instantly killed. Naturally this would cause a riot and they sent to El Centro for a tank such as it was in those days - a cannon and several machine guns. But soon after the Mayor had issued orders to shoot anyone getting out of hand an agreement was easily reached.â€<br /> <br /> University of Washington’s IWW History Project documents two IWW actions in Brawley between 1905 and 1920 neither of which match DeMoulin’s description; nor does the event appear in newspapers. However “Captain†William Stanley was in the area serving as the secretary of the I.W.W.’s chapter in the Imperial Valley. In 1911 Stanley was killed in an early battle of the Mexican Revolution assisting Mexican Liberal Party fighters in occupying Mexicali. DeMoulin claims to have traveled with several others to watch the fighting that would end the occupation:<br /> <br /> “It was suddenly discovered one morning that Captain Stanley and his I.W.W.’s had disappeared during the night and word had gotten around they had settled in Mexicalo sic a Mexican border town and were so strong in number they overpowered the police pillaged the shops and stores defying the Mexican Government by taking over complete possession of Mexicalo. However after putting up with this condition for several months the Mexican Government sent in about 500 Infantrymen with orders to get rid of them immediately under any condition. . Stanley’s men had made a large opening in the river bank to a depth of about five feet which led through to the bank facing south. From this vantage point his men could fire their muskets when the Mexicans advanced towards them and soon took to their heels when Stanley’s men began firing. . Several of us had driven down to sic Brawley to witness the fighting and bullets had been spattered everywhere. Many of the people never thinking of danger stood out in the open so as not to miss what was going on but I was glad to stay in the back of the adobes at least where one was protected from stray bullets. And having heard rumors of their retreating possibly the next day which was Sunday we drove down again but all was quiet and we met with no resistance. Many of the men were swimming and others were entertaining their wives and families in one way or another. We didn’t stay too long on that trip as one never knew what might happen. But it wasn’t long before they disappeared from Mexicalo entirely for which everyone was most grateful and happy.â€<br /> <br /> DeMoulin is none too fond of Mexican workers either describing how the 1928 construction of a primitive border wall “didn’t stop the wetbacks . from swimming across†and complaining that “regardless of having no sense nor education many were hired and the employers would hide them in groves because if they were arrested it would cost $160.00 including court and attorney fees to have each one returned to Mexico.†DeMoulin’s other targets for racial abuse include “a couple of crooked ‘Jewish Kikes’†who were “certainly professionals when it came to putting the money in their pockets†and several Black men who he claims steal from him.<br /> <br /> DeMoulin credits himself with bringing grapefruit production to the Imperial Valley and describes a scam by the area’s real estate agents to unload inferior farmland onto unsuspecting investors. He recounts his company making leather “‘Red Men’s’ costumes†for a “Chief Gray Eagle†in Oklahoma whose “squaws wouldn’t work for him any more.â€<br /> <br /> Of interest to historians of the Imperial Valley’s development and especially of labor relations in the agriculture industry. unknown‎

Referencia librero : List3210

‎[California - Music - Ephemera] Salvator Rosa's [Martin Guitars]‎

‎Lighte & Bradburys’ Patent Insulated Full Iron Frame New Scale Piano Fortes! Also Piano Fortes from John B. Dunham. Sheet Music and Music Books Sold at New York Prices. Martin’s Guitars‎

‎San Francisco 1864. Broadside measuring 12 x 8.5. Some wear and archival tape repair to margin fine contrast excellent condition overall. Very Good. An interesting broadside advertising the Lighte and Bradbuiry piano as well as Martin Guitars printed for the Salvator Rosa music store at 615 Montgomery Street in San Francisco. Lighte and Bradbury was in its third iteration in the period from 1858-1864 when this broadside was printed having been started by the German immigrant Ferdinand C. Leuchte in 1847 who did business with a range of partners after anglicizing his name to Lighte. Among the testimonials listed on the broadside is praise from Lowell Mason the composer and music director. Salvator Rosa’s store was around from at least 1852 when a fire in the city destroyed the building on Clay St. making this location at 615 Montgomery Street at least the second for the firm. The firm published sheet music including “Fireman’s March†and “Garibaldi’s Hymn.†Martin Guitars had been based in Nazareth Pennsylvania since 1838 and were a relatively small company at this point before the growth of popularity of guitars and the shift to steel strings that happened in the early twentieth century. We find no other nineteenth century examples of broadside advertisements for Martin in trade records. unknown‎

Referencia librero : List2420

‎[California] [Los Angeles] Weathersby, Cassius‎

‎LOCATION PHOTOGRAPHS FOR THE COOLEY HIGH TELEVISION PLOT‎

‎Burbank California: American Broadcasting Company 1975. An archive of 55 color photographs of Los Angeles locations scouted for the pilot episode of Cooley High taken by location manager Cassius Weathersby. Most of the photographs are accompanied by captions noting the address or location. Also included are nine leaves with handwritten notes by Weathersby cast and crew lists shooting schedules call sheets location permits and other material relating to the production.<br /> <br /> One of Weathersby’s notes reads “no palm trees or stucco†a reminder that the locations were meant to stand in for the show’s Chicago setting. As such the photographs present images of Los Angeles not often seen in film of brick warehouses concrete apartment buildings vacant lots and old diners shot in South Central and outlying areas of the city.<br /> <br /> Cooley High was based on the 1975 film of the same name about a group of African American high school students in 1960s Chicago. The pilot episode wasn’t well received by ABC and the show was completely retooled into the sitcom What’s Happening!! 1976-79 which followed the lives of three working-class African American teens in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts. Weathersby would go on to work as the production manager for the show.<br /> <br /> Most of the photographs measure 4 ¼†x 3 ¼†11 x 8 cm. 30 are mounted on white paper with location information to the side. The remaining photographs are loose with location information handwritten on the verso. Housed in a generic manila file folder with the “Cooley High†handwritten on the tab. American Broadcasting Company unknown‎

Referencia librero : 76885

‎[CALIFORNIA -- LONG BEACH]. SMITH, A[rchie] L[oren].‎

‎Long Beach. . . Fascinating photo album promoting this inventor’s “Hydro-Syphon†Iceless Refrigerator factory and idyllic family life in southern California in the 1920s.‎

‎Long Beach CA: A.L. Smith 1219 Loma Vista Dr. ca. 1922-1930. Oblong 4to. 9.25 x 7.5 in. 102 pp unpaginated. on thick black paper stock. With 360 silver gelatin photos tipped-in sized from 1.5 x 1.5 in up to 7 x 9 in. with the majority sized 3 x 5.25 in. a few w/ text within the negative some w/ minor creasing a couple loose. Embossed red post-binder brass screw posts at gutter margin hand-lettered on front cover in neat draftsman’s hand draftsman hand annotations in pencil in blank margins of leaves when revealed on gutter spine blanks minor scuffing edgewear some occasional tears to internal leaves many leaves reinforced with archival black cloth tape still a VG exemplar. This intriguing photo album depicts the lives of Smith’s family primarily engineers inventors river pilots and miners originally on the Yukon River out of Whitehorse and Dawson City and then in southern California following World War I. The album opens with an image of of Archie his brother George and others seated in what appears to be an open 5-bench seat ca. 1915-1916 International Model F bus in front of ivy-covered building. This is followed by a section including approximately 30 photographs devoted to the store factory sales outlets advertising on the company car and sales promotions for the “Hydro Syphon†Iceless Refrigerator invented by Archie Smith. This short-lived Hydro-Syphon Iceless Refrigerator was touted throughout the West as a substitute for buying ice and featured a bowl of an inverted glass bowl of water supplying cooling to coils above the chamber holding items to kept “refrigerated.†These are followed by many photos depicting the Smith family’s “smart†Southern California Bungalows 1 Norman Revival Style apartment houses and homes in and around Long Beach and Los Angeles during the Roaring 20s. The rest of the album focuses on the adventures and outdoor living experienced by his children Evelyn Dorothy and later young Robert. With their home located next to the automobile garage at which he worked he created an extraordinary backyard for his children fitted with pergola slide swings wading pool toys and even a chalkboard and items for the daughter’s tea parties. Archie had previously worked as an engineer and draftsman for the White Pass & Yukon Route in the Yukon while developing Aerosleds with his brother George Smith which were small prop-driven single man sleds used on ice and also ran on the W. P. & Y. Route Ry tracks. Archie Smith 1887-1964 had married Pansie Grace Lawrence in 1916 in Tacoma and when registering for the World War I draft noted a physical disability. After his refrigerator business folds he worked as real estate agent and then draftsman in an automobile machine shop in Los Angeles. His brother George Camden Smith 1889-1972 also shown in the photos was a ship’s engineer and longtime river pilot on the Yukon River before immigrating back to the U.S. in 1941 to live near his brother. Their stepfather William Puckett b. 1869 Klondike gold miner living in Seattle WA in 1900 married Anna Smith a widow sometime before 1903 and then returns to Whitehorse with the stepchildren to establish his roadhouse hardware store and confectionary and retired to Long Beach in 1938. See: Nancy DeWitt Early Snow Vehicles in Alaska: Part 1 Fountainhead Antique Auto museum Fairbanks Alaska March 3 2014. A.L. Smith, 1219 Loma Vista Dr., hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 56784

‎[California]‎

‎LOS ANGELES CITY AND COUNTY DIRECTORY FOR 1883-4. Containing a Complete List of Names Places of Business and Residences of All Adult Citizens‎

‎Los Angeles: Atwood & Ferguson 1883. Hardcover. Good. A rare survivor not in Quebedeaux this early directory was published just two years after the Los Angeles Times began publication and a year prior to the arrival of cultural crusader Charles F. Lummis following his famous tramp across the continent. It also precedes the mid-1880s boom that initiated the transformation of the small town of just over 11000 people or about 33000 countywide into a thriving metropolis. Numerous notable residents are listed including Horace Bell author of Reminiscences of a Ranger 1881 and Elizabeth A. Follansbee Southern California's first female physican. Aspects of the city's cultural diversity are evident as well either overtly with individuals identified as "colored" or in the case of the Asian American population by omission. Notably the directory includes an advertisement for F.H. Rogers' Solar Art Gallery at 624 San Fernando Street which features an original albumen photograph.<br /> <br /> Octavo: 352 p. with numerous advertisements. Original printed paper-covered boards over a brown cloth spine with gilt titles. Some occasional smudging with a tiny stain to the fore-edge. The ink stamp of Leon F. Moss a Los Angeles attorney and former judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court appears on the front pastedown and both the front and rear panel. Some general shelfwear and toning to the boards with a bit of scuffing and soiling to the front panel and loss of the gilt stamping along the spine. Housed in custom clamshell box with marbled paper lining and a gilt-stamped green morocco spine label. Scarce OCLC locates only five holdings: Azusa Pacific University Fresno County Free Library San Joaquin Valley Library Santa Rosa Junior College and the University of California Los Angeles. Atwood & Ferguson hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 76195

‎[California]‎

‎LOS ANGELES DIRECTORY CO'S LOS ANGELES CITY DIRECTORY 1940 Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens a Street and Avenue Guide and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character Also a Buyers' Guide and a Complete Classified Business Directory‎

‎Los Angeles: Los Angeles Directory Co 1939. Hardcover. Good. An important source of information on pre-war Los Angeles. Large quarto: 2350 92 2351-2558 4 pp. including the endpapers and boards with a plethora of advertisements a few photographic and coated endpapers printed in blue red and black. Typical toning to the contents with a small chip to the bottom edge of the title page. The top portion of the final leaf of the directory is fused to the rear flyleaf. It appears the binding has been reinforced between p.316 and 317. The advertisements along the edges are a little faded. The boards are shelfworn and moderately soiled with some general toning to the front panel a one-inch nick to the spine and a few small dents to the rear panel. Scarce OCLC locates no holdings. Los Angeles Directory Co hardcover‎

Referencia librero : 78832

‎[California]‎

‎LOS ANGELES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Alphabetical and Classified Directory of Members February 15 1929 and February 15 1930‎

‎Los Angeles: Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 1930. First Edition. Wraps. This Directory particularly the classified section is developed for the convenience of mutual interchange of trade." The alphabetical section lists the name and address of each member along with the date the joined and reference numbers that correspond to the classified section. Octavo two volumes: 356 pp. 364 pp. Bound in the original printed paper wrappers which are unevenly toned with some mild edgewear. Scarce OCLC locates a single holding of the 1929 directory at the Workman and Temply Family Homestead Museum and no copies of the 1930 directory.<br /> <br /> The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce established in 1888 has historically been the primary driver of regional growth engaging in aggressive boosterism to market Los Angeles' climate lifestyle and business opportunities to the nation. This pairing of directories was published immediately before and just after the "Black Tuesday" stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression. Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce unknown‎

Referencia librero : 80129

‎[CALIFORNIA -- LAND PROMOTION].‎

‎Los Angeles County California.‎

‎Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Chamber of Commerce 1938. 4to. 8 x 9 in. 8 pp unpaginated. printed in double-columns in one long folded sheet photo illustrations blue-coloured text illustrations self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers Art Deco cover art of palm trees and cityscape in blue black & white center fold as issued very minor shelfwear slight creasing 1 corner still NF copy. First edition thus of this scarce land promotion for Los Angeles County as the Great Depression drew to a close filled with illustrations of the cultural economic industrial and commercial possibilities in Los Angeles. Of particular note is the advisory note included at the end advising those who come seeking employment in Los Angeles that public assistance or relief aid is denied to anyone who has not been a resident of California for at least three years. Worldcat locates 2 copies Yale California Historical Society. Los Angeles County Chamber of Commerce, paperback‎

Referencia librero : 54069

‎[CALIFORNIA -- LOS ANGELES].‎

‎Los Angeles Today. . . Compliments of Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. . . .‎

‎Los Angeles: The Neuner Co. 1912. 12mo. 32 pp unpaginated. Photo-illustrated throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers w/ California Mission on front cover oranges on back cover very minor tidemark to lower gutter margin & spine minor shelfwear still G copy. First edition of this rare brochure promoting the booming Los Angeles housing market with beautiful California Bungalows fine Los Angeles residences California gardens citrus groves agriculture oil production the beaches Catalina Island schools and more. The Neuner Co., paperback‎

Referencia librero : 48820

‎[CALIFORNIA -- GOLDEN GATE EXPOSITION].‎

‎Magic in the night. Official Souvenir. Golden Gate International Exposition. . . Foreword by E.T. Buck Harris.‎

‎San Francisco CA: Crocker Company 1939. Oblong 4to. 12 x 9 in. 16 pp unpaginated. With numerous colour photo plates. Colour-illustrated softcovers cover art night scene photos of the Exposition very slight shelfwear w/ original printed mailing envelope added label for Wobbers on cover minor toning shelfwear still F/NF copy. First edition of this beautifully printed photographic excursion through the Art Deco marvels of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition held on Treasure Island in San Francisco. Crocker Company, paperback‎

Referencia librero : 57661

‎[California]. [Water]‎

‎Manuscript Letter Written by Charles Cornforth Describing Extensive Flooding in the State‎

‎Eureka City: January 14 1862. Very good. 2pp. on a folded sheet. Old folds minor wear. Manuscript letter to folks back home describing heavy rain and flooding around Eureka City. The author writes: "We have had two or three feet of snow at three different times this fall and winter and each time the snow was carried off by a verry heavy rain which made three several freshets two of which the water was higher than it was ever known to be before by white men." He goes on to discuss the difficulties caused by the flooding: "The high water done a great deal of damage throughout California by carrying off bridges houses lumber fire-wood &c. There is but verry few bridges left in the state as far as we have heard here. Marysville and Sacramento have been half under water and the flood has washed away many wooden buildings and some brick stores. A large portion of the farmers in the Sacramento Valley and also many other places were damaged considerable by having their land overflowed some crops washed off &c. The roads are almost impassable here we have had but three mails in as many weeks when we usually get one each day. January 14 unknown‎

Referencia librero : 4920

‎[California Gold Rush]. Fitch, OH O H‎

‎Manuscript Letter Discussing the Sale of Life Insurance to an Ohio Group Bound for the California Gold Rush‎

‎Ashtabula Oh: January 29 1849. About very good. 1pp. on a bifolium. Previously folded. Light dampstaining and short closed tears along gutter somewhat affecting first few lines of text but not overall sense. An interesting letter from O.H. Field an aspirational field representative of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in Ashtabula Ohio to the company secretary George R. Phelps inquiring about a policy for a group of men headed to the Gold Rush in California in January 1849. Connecticut Mutual was founded in Hartford three years prior to the composition of this letter in 1846. Fitch's missive begins with a report on his efforts to drum up interest in life insurance in his area with pamphlets and other materials sent to him by Phelps: <br /> <br /> "Yours of Oct 1 1849 with blanks pamphlets &c was not received by me until the 25th of Dec. following. I have not had any definitive applications for insurance. It was somewhat new here and the minds of the people had not been called to it. I have however distributed pamphlets and in other ways called the attention of our citizens to the subject. I think that something yet might be done.<br /> <br /> The letter goes on to describe a potential policy for a group soon leaving for the Gold Rush and requests a favorable rate in order to stimulate interest in policies from additional parties: <br /> <br /> "A company is now being formed to head out about ten men to work in the gold regions of California. The individuals who furnish the money wish to obtain an insurance for two years on the lives of the several persons who go out to secure the amount advanced. The men who propose to go are generally hardy healthy & of good habits & from 25 to 45 years of age. They expect to go by the overland route either from Independence Missouri or some more southerly route not south of Vera Cruz. Will you have the goodness to inform me by return mail if the company will take such risks -- & if so the rates of insurance as near as may be which you will charge -- whether you will insure more than the amt. actually advanced & if so how much & any other information you may think proper to give. If I receive a favorably sic reply I shall probably send you more proposals soon."<br /> <br /> A neat letter concerning the preparations and considerations necessary for a journey to California in the early days of the Gold Rush and the role and rise of early American insurance companies in the planning of such lengthy and dangerous overland travel. January 29 unknown‎

Referencia librero : 2389

‎[CALIFORNIA - Vice]‎

‎Manuscript Arrest Warrant in Sierra County 1857‎

‎Downieville: Sierra County California 1857. Loose sheet. Good. Loose leaf of blue laid paper measuring 8 x 12.5 inches with recto being a manuscript arrest warrant for a citizen who's a threat to the community and himself when drunk. Verso blank. Three old folds now mellowed with two 2-inch closed tears along the right margin of two folds. Good. An order for the arrest of J. Whittaker a printer by profession who "is not in a proper condition to take care of himself being under the influence of stimulating drinks and that for his individual safety and the public asks for an order of the Justice of the Peace . for safe keeping in the hands of the Sheriff." Written and signed by the sheriff John C. Ghauley and signed twice by the Justice of the Peace G. Harris.<p>The document attests to the unruly civic temperment of the frontier West and a casual administration of justice. That said the streets of today's Western cities appear burdened by much more than mere drunkenness.</p> . Sierra County, California unknown‎

Referencia librero : 5974

‎[California] Rand McNally and Company‎

‎Map of California and Nevada‎

‎Chicago: Rand McNally 1881. A very good copy some edge tears one closed tear about 1/2 inch into blank area of map one small hole at fold generous margins. Image size 23.5 x 19.14 inches on 24.5 x 20.5 sheet. Outlined color. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. An extremely detailed if not the most detailed map of California and Nevada up to that time to be published in an Atlas. Shown are many hundreds of natural and man-made features such as mountains rivers lakes springs wells lava fields deserts plains craters dry lakes passes as well as military encampments mines Native American Reservations roads railroads and stations canals ferry crossings Missions cities towns and other human habitations many of which are long gone. Removed from the Rand McNally's Indexed Atlas of the World first edition 1881. [Rand McNally] unknown‎

Referencia librero : 46231

‎[California]‎

‎Map of Kings County California‎

‎Hanford Ca: Hanford Morning Journal 1909. Good plus. Folding map approximately 25.5 x 22 inches. Original printed card wrappers. A couple internal tears and separations along fold lines repaired with tape on blank verso with resultant minor losses slightly affecting printed areas. Otherwise unrecorded early 20th-century plat map of Kings County California published by the newspaper of its county seat the Hanford Morning Journal. The county south of Fresno and west of Visalia in the Central Valley was formed from Tulare County in 1893 and just over 200 acres were added in its northwestern region from Fresno County perhaps the impetus for the production of the map in the same year. In addition to the plat of the entire county the map shows the cluster of towns in the northern portion of the county the routes of the Southern Pacific and A.T. & S.F. Railroads which crossed in Hanford the outline of the "mostly dry" Tulare Lake bed and other water and geological features. Not in OCLC. Hanford Morning Journal unknown‎

Referencia librero : 2864

‎[California]. [Mining]‎

‎Map of Mining Ground Situated on Manzanita Hill Near Sweetlands As Surveyed for the Manzanita Mining Co. manuscript title‎

‎Sweetland Ca 1867. About very good. Hand-colored manuscript map approximately 15 x 21.5 inches. Matted and in corner mounts. Mounted on linen. A few short closed tears and minor chips at edges not entering map area. Horizontal crease across center of map. Light tanning and scattered foxing. A neatly composed and hand-colored manuscript of the Manzanita mine in the Sweetland mining district located in Nevada County California. The settlement of Sweetland was established in 1850 by the Sweetland brothers who operated a trading post there in the early 1850s. The Manzanita mine was one of the largest in the district and the Manzanita Company was listed in the famous 1867 Bean's Directory of Nevada County contemporaneous to the drawing of the present map. It is unclear however whether the company enjoyed much ultimate success. <br /> <br /> Here the claims of the Manzanita Company along with those of the Administration Company and the Rough & Ready and Buck & Breck claims are delineated in black ink and hand shaded in six colors. Claims that were apparently established subsequent to in both pencil and light blue ink and are labeled Tennessee Kentucky Fremont Prospect Riley & Graham and so on. A note at the bottom right corner states that the map composed from a survey completed in November 1867 was "filed Feby 5th 1868 at 3 o'clock P.M. and recorded at the request of H.S. Bradley" the county surveyor. In all a quite attractive and informative manuscript California mining map composed just after the Civil War that evidently does not conform to any printed cartographic examples relating to these claims. unknown‎

Referencia librero : 2904

‎[California]‎

‎Map of Patterson Colony Sub-Tract No. One. Showing the Town of Patterson‎

‎N.p. perhaps Minneapolis 1909. Very good. Lithographed plat map 19.75 x 30 inches. Folded. Minor wear numerous plots rubber-stamped "Sold" and with additional shading of some portions in blue or green pencil and with prices for different groups of lots boldly penciled in ranging from $150 to $200. Stamp of a Minnesota real estate agent at bottom right. An unrecorded real estate plat map of the central valley town of Patterson along the San Joaquin River with the downtown area shown. This particular copy of the map is well used and contains vital information on the development of the town through sold lots and manuscript additions of pricing information for sections of the town. Below the title is the ink stamp of N.J. Blomgren Gen'l Northwestern Agent Patterson Colony Lands Minneapolis Minn. Evidently the aim was to get Minnesotans to trade the frigid winters of the Land of Lakes for the scorching summers of the San Joaquin Valley. "J.E.S. 12/5/1909" is printed in lower right corner. <br /> <br /> The history of Patterson begins with the Ranch Del Pueblo Mexican Land Grant Land to Mariano and Pedro Hernandez in 1844 by Governor M. Micheltorena. In 1866 John D. Patterson bought 13340 acres for $5.400 from J. O. Eldredge who bought the grant from S.G. Reed and R. S. Wade who had the patent encompassing the land grant signed by President Abraham Lincoln.  John D. Patterson purchased additional land and upon his death in 1902 a total of 18462 acres were willed to Thomas W. Patterson and William W. Patterson his estate executors and other heirs. The land was sold to the Patterson Ranch Company on May 16 1908 for the sum of $540000 cash gold coin. <br /> <br /> Thomas W. Patterson subdivided the land into ranches of various sizes and plotted the design of the town of Patterson. Determined to make Patterson different from most he modeled his town after the Cities of Washington D.C. and Paris France using a series of circles and radiating streets. Major streets were planted with palms eucalyptus and sycamore trees. The Patterson Colony map was filed with the Stanislaus County Recorders office on December 13 1909. Sales of the ranch properties and city lots commenced.  Patterson was the third city in Stanislaus County to incorporate in December 1919. No copies of this map are recorded by OCLC. unknown‎

Referencia librero : 2201

‎[California]. [Real Estate]‎

‎Map of Rice's Addition Tustin‎

‎Los Angeles: Los Angeles Lithographic Co 1887. Still very good. Illustrated lithograph map 20 x 24 inches. Trimmed along the left edge and borderline at the right. A few minor tears backed with rice paper. An exceedingly scarce lithograph promotional map for a late-19th-century subdivision in central Orange County California. The "Rice tract" depicted on this land development map was comprised of 194 lots for homes bounded by Prospect Avenue and Vineyard avenues and First Street and Preble Avenue in the town of Tustin east of Santa Ana. Until its proposed development the property was owned by James S. Rice 1846-1903 and his wife Cora who headed one of the pioneering families of Orange County. Rice moved his family there in 1877 and began ranching by working for his brother-in-law James Irvine who purchased the Rancho San Joaquin from José Antonio Andres Sepúlveda in 1864.<br /> <br /> In 1878 Rice purchased a small tract of land in the village of Tustin. He planted Valencia orange trees and Muscat grapes and a few years later he purchased an additional tract of fifty acres and expanded his agricultural operations. In the California real estate boom of 1886–87 he sold off all but twelve acres of his land for development at $4000 per acre allowing him to build a three-story home on his remaining property. His wife was a socialite who hosted numerous performing artists in their Tustin home including Helena Modjeska. The house was demolished in the late 1920s. The vignettes on the map show the future Tustin Hotel a three-story Victorian frame building with forty guest rooms that was built in 1888. Razed in 1914 it was designed by George Preble a Tustin builder who also designed Rice’s home. Scarce one copy is recorded in OCLC at U.C. Irvine which holds the Rice family papers. Los Angeles Lithographic Co unknown‎

Referencia librero : 5454

‎[California]‎

‎MAP OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY‎

‎San Bernardino California: San Bernardino County Board of Trade 1958. Large folding map 34" x 21 1/2" printed in black and green with a large county map on one side 12 city plans on the other and tourist information in the margins. A fresh example with only some very light edgewear.<br /> <br /> This pre-210 Freeway map of San Bernardino records the vast expanse of San Bernardino County the largest county in California with more than 12.8 million acres. At this time there was no city of Rancho Cucamonga which wasn’t incorporated until 1977 and is now the fourth largest city in the county by population.<br /> <br /> One side of this map shows points of interest as well as all the major military installations in the county including Norton Air Force Base a United States Air Force facility located two miles east of the city of San Bernardino. It was closed in 1994 and after years of environmental clean-up it is now home to an international airport and global logistics complex employing nearly 18000 people. Also shown is George Air Force Base in Adelanto which closed in 1988 at the end of the Cold War and is now partially home to the High Desert Power Plant.<br /> <br /> A small chart shows the county population was estimated at 46600 with predictions by the planning commission for population growth to 1160000 by 1980. The population in 1980 reached 895000 and is now over 2.2 million.<br /> <br /> OCLC records holdings at Stanford UC Riverside and the University of Kansas. San Bernardino County Board of Trade unknown‎

Referencia librero : 79287

‎[CALIFORNIA -- SAN DIEGO]. STOKES, Rodney‎

‎Map of the City of San Diego and vicinity. . . .‎

‎San Diego CA: Rodney Stokes Co. ca. 1923. Oblong elephant folio map sized 34 x 22 in. 96 x 56 cm. in thin translucent paper stock of San Diego w/ 1 inset map of La Jolla street index at left margin fold creases as issued minor age toning couple spots w/ minor soiling edgewear couple minor closed tears still a VG- copy. First edition thus of this larger version of the Rodney Stokes San Diego map which includes references to the Trunk Line streets public parks San Diego Electric Railway Car Lines and also specifically the San Diego Electric Railway Bus Lines which were introduced in 1922 by the system. Rodney Stokes Co. first began issuing San Diego and Vicinity maps in 1906 and this larger version for the 1920’s tends to be scarcer. Worldcat locates 1 copy Milwaukee County Fed. Library. Rodney Stokes Co., unknown‎

Referencia librero : 62444

‎[California]‎

‎Map of the Central Group of the Maywood Colonies at Corning Tehama County Sacramento Valley California‎

‎Corning Ca 1937. Very good. Map 13 x 14 inches. Text on verso. Old folds minor wear. Later edition of this promotional map for the Maywood Colony near Corning California. In the 1890s real estaate entrepreneur Warren N. Woodson purchased the land that would become the Maywood Colony which he plotted out and promoted. The present map shows the various land developments and plots surrounding the town of Corning bounded by the Sacramento River on the east. Text on the verso promotes the area as rich in resources and agriculture. unknown‎

Referencia librero : 6108

‎[California]‎

‎Map Showing Subdivisions of the Ojai Valley Company‎

‎Ojai Ca.: Ojai Valley Company 1925. About very good. Lithographic map 28 x 27 inches. Old olds some creasing a few small tears to margins minor separations at crossfolds seven-inch closed tear to upper portion of map two-and-a-half-inch closed tear to lower portion of map upper and lower margins of map trimmed. A rare and striking subdivision map by the Ojai Valley Company founded in 1922 to develop the Arbolada neighborhood of Ojai in Ventura County. The map is annotated in lead or red pencil to denote sold lots and the names of some of the purchasers the size of each lot and other notes. In a few cases the construction of new buildings are noted on certain plots including a Catholic church and a hotel. Some additional roads and lots have been added to the map in pencil. Ojai Valley Company unknown‎

Referencia librero : 2163

‎[California]‎

‎Menlo Park Centennial Celebration June 13-19 1948 Official Program‎

‎Menlo Park: Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce 1948. First Edition. Self Wraps Printed Saddle-Stapled. Very Good. 8vo. Pp. 52. Includes welcoming notes from Charles P. Burgess Mayor of the City of Menlo Park and Daniel Hayes President of the Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce. With programs for various days of the celebration. Includes photos of personalities appearing during programs including Peggy Lee. Laden with ads for local businesses. Bound in stiff textured wrappers photo-illustrated. Spine has a split between staples else Fine. The program evokes the promise of the California dream following the Depression and WWII. Ads for the Longbarn all-new Austin Motor Cars at the Egan Car Co. Dinah's Shack Derry's Feed and Fuel and John S. Wickett "the Atherton Realtor" among others evoke the impending affluence of the region. A prominent full-page ad for the Oakville Terrace subdivision "homes now being built or choose your own lot" is described as "highly restricted" presumably a reference to redlining designed to keep the new neighborhood exclusively white. Now housed in an archival sleeve with acid-free backing. Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce unknown‎

Referencia librero : 5013