Map of old Spanish and Mexican ranchos in Los Angeles County, 1919

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.

Title:

Record ID:

chs-m13246

Names & Dates

Created:

1919

Publisher:

[host] University of Southern California. Libraries

Subject

Topic:

Ranches , Title Insurance and Trust Company , [file heading] Maps -- Ranchos and land grants , agricultural sites

Coverage:

1919

Place:

[counties] Los Angeles
[states/provinces] California
[countries] USA

Relationships

Part Of:

[collection] California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
[project] USC

Physical

Type:

images
maps

Format:

negatives (photographic)
2 photographs : photonegatives, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
photographs
maps

Access

Rights:

California Historical Society

Repository:

USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu

Ordering:

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Identifiers

Record ID:

chs-m13246

Source:

[record id] USC-0-1-1-13399
[accession no] 13060
[accession no] 13060-A
[call no] CHS-13060
[call no] CHS-13060A