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 map prepared by the Title Insurance and Trust Company showing the old Spanish and Mexican ranchos of Los Angeles County, 1919. The Sierra Nevada mountains run along the top of the image, and in the bottom left corner is the Pacific Ocean. Between these features is a maze of lines marking the boundaries of the old ranchos. A compass rose is at left, and the map is decorated with drawings of wagons, ships, fish, people, animals, and buildings. A box in the lower right corner provides a scale for the map in English miles, Spanish leagues and Spanish Varas. The names of the ranchos and other landmarks are as follows, from left to right, top to bottom: Los Alamos of Agua Caliente, La Liebre, Temescal, San Francisco, Simi, Ex-Mission de San Fernando, Tujunga, La Canada, El Camino Real, Las Virgenes, El Escorpion, El Encino, Providencia, San Rafael, San Pascual, Santa Anita, Azusa de Duarte, Azusa Dalton, Addition to San Jose, El Conejo, San Vicente y Santa Monica, Los Felis, San Francisquito, San Jose, Topanga, Malibu, Sequil, Boca de Santa Monica, San Jose de Buenos Aures Rodeo de Las Aguas, La Brea, Pueblo de Los Angeles, San Gabriel Arcangel, Potrero Grande, Potrero de Felipe Lugo, Los Nogales, Rincon de Los Bueyes, Las Cienegas, La Merced, Potrero Chico, La Puente, Bay of Santa Monica, La Ballona, Cienega Paso de la Tijera, San Antonio, Paso de Bartolo, Rincon de La Brea, Sausal Redondo, Tajauta, Santa Gertrudes, La Habra, San Pedro, Los Cerritos, Los Palos Verdes, Bay of San Pedro, Los Alamitos, Isla Santa Catalina.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographs maps
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