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Maps and More

resources from the regular collections show-and-tell at the Earth Sciences and Map Library

Poster

Rancho maps made for Native American claims (or settlers claiming on behalf of Native claimants)

Cuca
Diseño del llano del Suy-sun : Solano Co., Calif.
Diseño del Rancho Huerta de Romualdo : Calif.
Diseño del Rancho Suisun : Solano Co., Calif.
Land, san gabriel
Map of Ulistac
Nicasio / ex mission san rafael
Olompali "santisima rosario"
Plan of the Rancho of El Chorro : [Calif.]
Potrero de san carlos
(originally granted to Fructoso de Real, an Indian, now claimed by a settler)
Rancho de Ulistan

Related Books

Inigo (Ynigo)’s claim for Rancho Posolmi

Diseño del Rancho del Refugio o Pastoria de las Borregas : Santa Clara Co., Calif.
G4361 G465 svar L3 no.A-204 (Case D)
Inigo’s confirmed claim
Map of the land called Posolmi or Yñigo's ranch
Diseño del terreno del Rancho de Ynigo : Santa Clara Co., Calif.
Mission Santa Clara, where he was a neophyte
G4361.G465 svar .L3 no.D916R:17 (Case D)

selected late 19th & 20th-century maps that show Rancho Posolmi / Ynigo rancho

United States Geological Survey topographic maps:

Mountain View 1:24,000 (1997)

Palo Alto 1:62,500 (1899 & 1961)

Santa Cruz 1:125,000 (1902)

Map of pueblo lands of San Jose [Calif.]
Call Number: G4364.S6G46 1866 .T4 (Case D)
Map of Santa Clara Co., California
Call Number: G4363.S4 1876 .M3 (Case D)
Map of Santa Clara County, California / compiled by McMillan & McMillan.
Call Number: G4363.S4 1930 .M3 (Case D)

El Escorpion Rancho claim at Mission San Fernando

Ex-mission San Fernando map showing El Escorpion claim
G4361.G465 svar .L3 no.E1389 (Case D)
Mission claim
G4361.G465 svar .L3 no.E1391 (Case D)
Mission survey
G4361.G465 svar .L3 no.D916R:6 (Case D)

selected late 19th & 20th-century maps that show Escorpion

United States Geological Survey topographic map: Calabasas 1:62,500 (1903)

Map of Los Angeles
Call Number: G4364.L8 1924 .C3 (Case D)
Outline of El Escorpion evident in western boundary of the San Fernando Valley inset.

Maps illustrating extent and loss of native lands in California

Native tribes, groups, dialects, and families of California in 1770
Call Number: G4361.E1 1770 .N3 (Case D)
Map of the territory of the Pomo linguistic stock and of the adjacent territories of other linguistic stocks, showing dialectic subdivisions and village sites
Call Number: G4361.E1 1908 .M3 (Case D)
Map showing location of areas involved in the unratified treaties of 1851-2 with various California tribes
Call Number: G4361.E1 1851 .U5 (Case B)
Public lands, California (1978)
Call Number: G4361.G5 1978 .U5 (Case D)
Indian lands in California (1990)
Call Number: G4361.E1 1990 .U5 (Case D)