Rare Books
Description of Weyer's cave : Accompanied by an accurate map of the cave
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Map of Arlington Heights : for more accurate description see official map recorded in San Bernardino County
Visual Materials
Old shelf No. eph J4-12a(2). Now part of the city of Riverside. The California Central Railway Company, whose line runs across the top of the page, was founded in 1887. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Acres. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography. Verso Text: Ms notes: Eph J4-12a (2). Riverside R1/2 No. 4.
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An Accurate Map of North America
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Two sub maps: A Particular Map of Baffin and Hudson's Bay; The Passage by Land to California Discover'd by Father Eusebius Francis Kino.. Voluminous text regarding sections of the treaty and other explanatory details. RLIN record gives appeared in information. Note this is a later printing of the map 093:146 in the Museum Bookstore collection, and is designated 093:147. "Describing and distinguishing the British and Spanish Dominions on this great Continent; according to the Definitive Treaty Concluded at Paris 10th Feby. 1763. Also all the West India Islands belonging to and possessed by the several European Princes and States." "The whole laid down according to the latest and Most authentick Improvements, by Emanuel Bowen, Geogr. to His Majesty And John Gibson Engraver." Elaborate cartouches, on title and scale. Two sub maps. Prime meridian: London, Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Crowned fluer-di-lis. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS notes: 149502 147 cat 93 2 sheets [printed] 5 6.
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Maps of Mammoth Cave lands
Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters (including 1 letter book), manuscripts (including 50 diaries), documents (including 55 account books, 12 cash books, and 5 miscellaneous volumes), and photographs related to the lives and activities of various Janin family members and the extended Janin-Blair-Jesup-Croghan families. Subject matter in the collection includes: politics and government in Washington, D.C., and Louisiana; society and customs in Washington, D.C., and New Orleans; Blair House (Washington, D.C.); land titles in Indiana Territory, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Missouri; the Ocean Canal and Transportation Company, which ran from Louisiana to St. Louis; the history of Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, from the time of purchase by John Croghan in 1839 until 1932, when it became a national park (at which time Violet Blair Janin was the primary owner); and mining in Australia. Persons represented in the collection include: James Lawrence Blair, Mary Jesup Blair, Violet Blair Janin, John Croghan, William Croghan, Albert Covington Janin, Louis Janin, Julia Clark Jesup, Thomas Sidney Jesup, George M. Wheeler, and Lucy James Blair Wheeler. Organizations represented in the collection (with which Violet Blair Janin was affiliated) include: Daughters of the American Revolution, National Association Opposed to Woman's Suffrage, National Cathedral Association, National Society of Children of the American Revolution, and the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.
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