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Humboldt County Collection (HCC) Map Collection
1999.15  
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • Acquisition Information
  • Biography/Administrative History
  • Scope and Content of Collection
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Humboldt County Collection (HCC) Map Collection
    Dates: 1853-to date
    Collection Number: 1999.15
    Creator/Collector: Humboldt State University Library Special Collections staff
    Extent: 420 maps in database plus approximately 10 series
    Online items available
    Repository: Cal Poly Humboldt, Library Special Collections and Archives
    Arcata, California 95521-8299
    Abstract: The geographic focus of the HCC Maps Collection is Northwestern California, including towns, timber lands, railroad lines, waterways, and mines. Maps range in subject matter and purpose: coastal surveys, environmental inventories and analyses, geologic studies including earthquakes and landslides, public lands, maritime activities including shipwrecks, flood insurance and Sanborn maps, topographic and orthophotoquad maps.
    Language of Material: English

    Access

    The collection is open for research.

    Publication Rights

    Copyright has not been assigned to Humboldt State University. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce in any format, please contact the Special Collections Librarian.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item]. Humboldt County Collection (HCC) Map Collection. Collection Number: 1999.15. Cal Poly Humboldt, Library Special Collections and Archives

    Acquisition Information

    Individual maps as well as sets are received from various sources.

    Biography/Administrative History

    Notable cartographers and map publishers include: Lentell; Doolittle; Forbes; Denny; Herrick; Belcher; Metsker; Susie Baker Fountain; Alderon Laird; Norman Smith; USGS; etc.

    Scope and Content of Collection

    The geographic focus of the HCC Maps Collection is Northwestern California, including towns, timber lands, railroad lines, waterways, and mines. Maps range in subject matter and purpose: coastal surveys, environmental inventories and analyses, geologic studies including earthquakes and landslides, public lands, maritime activities including shipwrecks, flood insurance and Sanborn maps, topographic and orthophotoquad maps. An initial effort to inventory and process this collection occurred in 1998 when two students created worksheets for each map; minimal repair was done at this time. An additional map filing case was purchased with preservation grant funding from NEH in 2006 to allow for further growth of the collection. In 2011 an experienced cartography student, Ryan Lewelling Winford, further inventoried and processed the collection, entering information about each map into a Microsoft Access database which can be searched on the Humboldt Room Map Collections page.

    Indexing Terms

    Real property - California - Humboldt County - Maps