Humboldt County Collection (HCC) Map Collection
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2023
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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
The collection is open for research.
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.
[Identification of item]. Humboldt County Collection (HCC) Map Collection. Collection Number: 1999.15. Cal Poly Humboldt,
Library Special Collections and Archives
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.
Real property - California - Humboldt County - Maps