Fifty-two nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century maps are the first to be added to the California Historical Society’s new Digital Library.  The images represent a sampling of unique or uncommonly held titles ranging geographically from an 1863 map of the copper region of Del Norte County in the north, to a circa 1866 map of the Sutro Tunnel and Comstock Lode, to a colorful 1913 townsite map of Date City (now called Calipatria) in Imperial County in the south. In between are city, county, mining, real property, water-supply, road, and railroad maps of various localities throughout the state. 

For additional information on these maps:

http://tinyurl.com/z3o7n6m


In a related project, 1,500 maps of the Society’s maps have now been cataloged in WorldCat as well as in the CHS local catalog.  Surprisingly, more than half of the titles are new to WorldCat.

http://c95040.eos-intl.net/C95040/OPAC/Index.aspx


Philip Hoehn
Volunteer Map Cataloger
California Historical Society
San Francisco