Historical Maps of California

Selected California Out-of-Print Quadranges
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1770 to 1879

1880 to 1894

1895 to 1909

1910 to 1950

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	Main Author:		Robert de Vaugondy, Giles (info)
	Title/Description:		Carte de la California
	Publication Info:		Paris: D. Diderot, 1779; from Diderot's Encyclopdie
	Date:		1779
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	Original Source:		Rucker Agee Map Collection

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	Main Author:		unknown
	Title/Description:		Vue de San Francisco
	Publication Info:		Paris: c.1850
	Date:		1850
	Scale:		oblique view
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Blake, W.P.
	Title/Description:		Geological Map of the Country Between San Diego and the Colorado River
	Publication Info:		Washington, D.C.: USPRR Explorations & Surveys, War Department, 1855; prepared in office of P.R.R. Exp. & Surveys
	Date:		1855
	Scale:		1:608,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		U.S. Coast Survey
	Title/Description:		Map of the Country Between San Diego and the Colorado River
	Publication Info:		Washington, D.C.: U.S. Coast Survey, 1855; No. 60
	Date:		1855
	Scale:		1:1,608,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		U.S. Coast Survey
	Title/Description:		Map of the Vicinity of Montery Bay
	Publication Info:		Washington, DC: U.S. Coast Survey, 1855; No.59 to accompany a report on the physical geographical and geology of the coast by W.P. Blake
	Date:		1855
	Scale:		1:150,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		U.S. Coast Survey
	Title/Description:		Map of the Vicinity of the Golden Gate, San Francisco Bay, California
	Publication Info:		Washington, DC: U.S. Coast Survey, 1855; No.58
	Date:		1855
	Scale:		1:150,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Hayes, John C.
	Title/Description:		Map of Public Surveys in California
	Publication Info:		Sacramento: Surveyor General's Office, 1855
	Date:		1855
	Scale:		1:1,140,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Blake, William P.
	Title/Description:		Geological Map of a Part of the State of California
	Publication Info:		Washington, D.C.: War Department, 1856; prepared to accompany the report of Lieut. R.S. Williamson from the Pacific Railroad Surveys
	Date:		1856
	Scale:		1:2,218,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Antisell, Thomas
	Title/Description:		Geological Plan of the Coastal Range of California from San Francisco Bay to Los Angeles
	Publication Info:		Washington, D.C.: War Department, 1856; from the Pacific Railroad Surveys
	Date:		1856
	Scale:		1:1,521,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
	Title/Description:		County Map of California
	Publication Info:		Philadelphia: S.A. Mitchell, c.1860
	Date:		1860
	Scale:		1:3,802,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Parke, John Grubb and H. Custer
	Title/Description:		Coastal Route, Californic Map No.1 from San Francisco Bay to the Plains of Los Angeles
	Publication Info:		Washington, D.C.: War Department, 1861; constructed from surveys of 1854 and 1855
	Date:		1861
	Scale:		1:760,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Beale, E.F.
	Title/Description:		Map of Public Surveys in California
	Publication Info:		Sacramento: Surveyor General's Office, 1861
	Date:		1861
	Scale:		1:1,140,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Williamson, Robert Stockton
	Title/Description:		Map and Profile of the Canada de las Uvas
	Publication Info:		Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of War, 1861
	Date:		1861
	Scale:		1:60,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Colton, G.W. and G.W. Fitch
	Title/Description:		California
	Publication Info:		New York: Ivison, Phinney & Co., 1862; from their Introductory School Geography
	Date:		1862
	Scale:		1:7,286,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		American Photo-Lithographic Company
	Title/Description:		California
	Publication Info:		New York: American Photo-Lithographic Co., c.1865
	Date:		1865
	Scale:		1:5,069,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Well, Edward
	Title/Description:		Califorina - Texas
	Publication Info:		New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1866; designed to accompany Cornell's High School Geography
	Date:		1866
	Scale:		1:6,33,600
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Asher & Adams
	Title/Description:		Asher & Adams' California & Nevada - North Portion
	Publication Info:		New York: Asher & Adams, 1872
	Date:		1872
	Scale:		1:1,267,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Asher & Adams
	Title/Description:		Asher & Adams' California & Nevada - South Portion
	Publication Info:		New York: Asher & Adams, 1872
	Date:		1872
	Scale:		1:1,267,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Lloyd, H.H. and Company
	Title/Description:		County Map of California and Nevada
	Publication Info:		New York: Warner & Beers, c.1873; from H.H. Lloyd & Co.'s Atlas of the United States
	Date:		1873
	Scale:		1:3,295,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Williams, J. David
	Title/Description:		Map of California and Nevada
	Publication Info:		New York: J. David Williams, 1873
	Date:		1873
	Scale:		1:3,485,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Colton, Joseph Hutchins
	Title/Description:		Colton's California and Nevada
	Publication Info:		New York: G.W. and C.B. Colton & Co., 1873
	Date:		1873
	Scale:		1:2,091,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		California Geological Survey
	Title/Description:		Map of the San Joaquin, Sacramento and Tulare Valleys, State of California
	Publication Info:		Washington, D.C.: Chief of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1873; prepared under the direct direction of the Board of Commissioners on Irrigation
	Date:		1873
	Scale:		1:760,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Mitchell, Samuel Augustus
	Title/Description:		County Map of the State of California
	Publication Info:		Philadelphia: S.A. Mitchell, 1875
	Date:		1875
	Scale:		1:2,408,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		McNally, Francis
	Title/Description:		California. Minnesota
	Publication Info:		New York: A.S. Barnes and Company, 1876; from An Improved System of Geography
	Date:		1876
	Scale:		1:6,653,000
	Original Source:		University of Alabama Map Library

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	Main Author:		Gray, Frank A.
	Title/Description:		California and Nevada
	Publication Info:		Philadelphia: Frank A. Gray, 1878
	Date:		1878
	Scale:		1:2,280,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Gray, Frank A.
	Title/Description:		San Francisco
	Publication Info:		Philadelphia: Frank A. Gray, 1878
	Date:		1878
	Scale:		1:31,680
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:
	Title/Description:		U.S. Geographical Surveys West of the 100th Meridian, Land Classification Map of Part Southern California [Bakerfield-Caliento] Atlas Sheet No. 73(A)
	Publication Info:		Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, 1879; By Order of the Honorable the Secretarty of War; Expeditions of 1875 & 1878 Under the Command of 1st Lieut. Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army
	Date:		1879
	Scale:		1:253,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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