Rare old maps of the United States.
![[Pictorial Road Maps] Motoring to Yosemite and the Mariposa Big Trees](/map/small/70985.jpg)
Finely illustrated promotional booklet, consisting of 16 pages and 7 color maps, published by the Yosemite Park and Curry Co., Yosemite National Park, California, and printed by H. S. Crocker Co., San Francisco. While the maps and pamphlet are...
American Automobile Owners Association Rare separately published map of San Diego and Imperial Counties, published by the American Automobile Owners Association (not AAA). At one point, AAA and AAOA were involved in copyright litigation over their...
Detailed map of the Roads of San Diego County, published by the Automobile Club of Southern California. Includes a large inset map of the city of San Diego.
Decorative promotional pamphlet promoting Catalina Island, with a marvelous birdseye view of Avalon Bay, including 2 piers. Interesting early promotional pamphlet with many photographs and early descriptions of the best of Catalina's tourist industry...
![[Los Angeles & Orange Counties] Status of Lands Survey Conducted During 1926 Central Portion of Coastal Plain . . .](/map/small/66323.jpg)
Detailed Irrigation map of a portion of the Los Angeles Basin, published by the California Department of Public Works, Division of Water Rights. A color key identifies: Irrigated areas (green) Unirrigated areas (yellow) Subdivided (urban) areas...
Scarce separately issued sea chart of San Francisco Bay and Vicinity, extending from Monterey Bay to Bodega Bay, with large revisions up to 1926. First issued in the mid-19th century, this map was regularly updated well into the 20th century.
![[Southern California] Map of Automobile Roads Banning California](/map/small/45357.jpg)
Illustratrated promotional pamphlet for Banning, California, with a fine Automobile map of Southern California. The map is drawn by Paul M. Entenman. Topography shown with hachures. The pamphlet includes 15 pages of text. Interior illustrations...
Report of the Hydraulic Mining commission and large regional map illustrating the region where the restart of hydraulic mining was being contemplated in California in the 1920s. The report was prepared at a time period when California was considering...
![[Los Angeles Urban Planning] . Suggested Treatment For Local Business Centers Along Main Thorofares](/map/small/54561.jpg)
A detailed urban planning model for a commercial street in Los Angeles, prepared by the City Planning Department. The map names Gordon Whitnall as Director of the Board of City Planning Commissioners, Jack W. Simons on behalf of the City Planning...
Detailed map of the Stanford University Campus, as it appeared in 1928. The map was likely created for a guide book, although we do not know the source. The map shows a portion of campus in academic use and street map of Palo Alto. The map is very...
Remarkable oversized tract map of Dana Point, almost certainly the earliest large format subdivision map of Dana Point. The present map, which locates a number of ambitious future improvements, including a country club, polo field, hotel site,...
![[Berkeley] This Is The Map of Berkeley Town Its Streets Go Winding Up & Down An Oak-Covered Camputs It Wears For A Crown With People & Places of Renown](/map/small/69776.jpg)
Rare pictorial map of the area around the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, published in about 1928 by Thomas Brothers and drawn by Virginia Tooker. The map is centered on the Campanile, with California Memorial Stadium at the east,...
Fine large British sea chart of the Southern California Coastline, published in 1928, with small corrections to 1957. The chart extends from San Diego to Point Conception and Arguello Point, centered on Santa Monica and the LA Basin. Offshore islands...
Unrecorded map showing the original Master Plan for the area between La Costa / Solana Beach and the Rancho Santa Fe Covenant Lands, by Charles H. Cheney, one of the most important city planners of the 20th century. Charles H. Cheney, was the father...
![[Downtown San Diego]](/map/small/43211.jpg)
Highly detailed plan of Downtown San Diego, between A Street in the North to F Street in the South and between State Street in the West to 8th Street in the East, published by Nirenstein. This finely detailed map shows downtown San Diego at the height...
Promoting Hermosa Beach Rare promotional road map for Southern California, packed full of regional advertising. Includes a large photograph of Hermosa Beach and a smaller photo of "Olympic Barges." The promotional details relate to Hermosa Beach and...
