Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a mid-17th-century French map showing California (or Baja California) as an island, 1903. Bounded by: "Neuvo Mexico" (north), "Las Tres Marias" (south), "Mer de Sud" (west), "Taof"... (east). Photographed from a portion of a map in the Los Angeles Public Library, bearing description as follows: "Le Nouveau Mesique et La Floride Tirees de deverp cartes, et Relations par N. Sauson d'Abbeville, George Ord re du Roy a Paris -- chez Pierre Mariette, Rue S. Jacques a l'epperance avec Privilege du Roy pour vingt-ans, 1656". Other prominent features: "Ligne sous le Tropicque du Cancer", "Mar Vermeio", "Apaches de Xila", "Apaches de Nava"..., "Marata Re".... Published 1656. "The first Californian who ever went to heaven, according to records in the Huntington Library, was an Indian who died Nov. 22, 1683. This fact is vouched for in a letter just discovered among the manuscripts in the library by Leslie E. Bliss, librarian. The letter is signed by a Jesuit Father, Eusobio Francisco Kino, mathematician, astronomer and man of God. Twenty-five of Father Kino's letters were found in the files in one of which he explains that he came here 'to determine whether this be indeed an island or a peninsula!" -- newspaper clipping.
Type
image
Format
3 photograph : photonegative, glass photonegative, photoprint, b&w 10 x 14 cm., 22 x 17 cm., 26 x 21 cm. glass plate negatives negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs maps
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