Finding aid for the Southern California maps and reports 7123
Bo Doub
USC Libraries Special Collections
2021 September
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Southern California maps and reports
Creator:
University of Southern California
Identifier/Call Number: 7123
Physical Description:
26.75 Linear Feet
3 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1904-1946
Abstract: This collection contains maps and reports relating to Southern California history from various sources, assembled under one
collection for ease of access and use in USC Libraries Special Collections. Collection items include two tract maps from 1927
and 1928 showing different areas of the Miracle Mile neighborhood in Los Angeles and a third tract map from 1946 showing the
"northerly portion of the City of Redondo Beach." Collection also includes general Southern California maps, maps of Los Angeles,
Riverside, San Diego, and Orange counties, as well as various ephemera and brochures.
Language of Material:
English.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains maps and reports relating to Southern California history from various sources, assembled under one
collection for ease of access and use in USC Libraries Special Collections. Collection items include two tract maps from 1927
and 1928 showing different areas of the Miracle Mile neighborhood in Los Angeles and a third tract map from 1946 showing the
"northerly portion of the City of Redondo Beach." Collection also includes general Southern California maps, maps of Los Angeles,
Riverside, San Diego, and Orange counties, as well as various ephemera and brochures.
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special
Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical
items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The materials in this collection were acquired from a number of sources (some unidentified) at different times. See item-
or file-level description for more detailed provenancial information.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder no. or item name], Southern California maps and reports, Collection no. 7123, Regional History Collection, Special
Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California
Processing Information
This collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Maps
Property records
Real property -- California, Southern -- Maps
Reports
University of Southern California -- Archives
Oversize-tube 1
Southern California tract maps
1928-1929
1946
Scope and Contents
Three Southern California tract maps. Two of the tract maps are dated 1928 and 1929 and the third is dated Oct. 1946. The
two maps from the 1920s both name John C. Shaw, City Engineer, and both show tracts in different areas of the Miracle Mile
neighborhood in Los Angeles. The map from 1946 shows the "northerly portion of the City of Redondo Beach" and names Fritz
Zapf, City Engineer.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Found in East Library (USC Libraries offsite storage) in 2021. See accession no. 2021-053
Box 1
Southern California maps
1904-1929, undated
Physical Description: 8 Items
Processing Information
These maps were found in the DML B-22 mapcases with Dace Taube's notes (see accession no. 2021-055), but with unknown provenance.
Some of the maps are folded.
Scope and Contents
These maps include, but are not limited to, the following items:
- 1904 map of Los Angeles showing public buildings, schools, fire houses, and railways
- Map of Steam and electric roads centering in Los Angeles
- Map of Los Angeles as it appeared in 1871 (issued later by the Women's University Club of L.A.)
- Map of the old Spanish and Mexican ranchos of Los Angeles County
- A 1929 newspaper clipping showing a graphic relating to the completion of Highway 66
