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Auction sale of salt marsh and tide lands in San Mateo County, belonging to the state of California : commencing on Tuesday, Sept. 26, A.D. 1871 ... at Platt's Hall, San Francisco

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    Salt marsh & tide lands situate in the counties of Alameda & Contra Costa, State of California

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    At head of title: "Sale map No. 11." "Under and by virtue of the act entitled "An Act supplementary to and amendatory of an Act entitled an Act to Survey & Dispose of certain Salt Marsh & Tidelands belonging to the State of California, Approved Marsh(sic.) Thirtieth, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Eight." Approved April 1st, 1870." "Sale to commence Wednesday July 10th 1872 at 11 AM at the Sales Rooms of Greenebaum & Co. Nos. 115 & 117 Bush Street, San Francisco." "Greenbaum & Co. Auctioneers." Submap: The Lands in Lake Merritt. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Chains. Projection: Plane. Printing Process: Lithography.

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    Salt Marsh Tide Swamp & Overflowed Lands, by George Hansen

    Manuscripts

    The collection consists of maps, field books, legal documents, business papers, and diaries related to the work of surveyors George Hansen, Alfred Solano, Sidney B. Reeve, and others. The maps and surveys in the collection are of the city of Los Angeles, Southern California ranchos, and subdivisions of the city of Los Angeles and neighboring towns. The collection contains over maps and sketch maps. Other subjects represented in the collection include: civil engineering, land subdivision, mines and mineral resources, and daily life in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County.

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    The summer term of Lebanon Academy will commence Tuesday, May 2d, 1871

    Visual Materials

    The Jay T. Last collection of education prints and ephemera contains over 1,800 printed items related to education in the United States from 1788 to approximately 1930, with the bulk of the items dating from 1850 to 1910. Most of these items are lithographs, but engravings and woodcuts are also included. The collection includes over 30 large-size items comprised mainly of lithographed views of colleges and universities, diplomas and other certificates, penmanship examples, and uncut sheets of rewards of merit. Small-size items number approximately 1,800 and contain a variety of materials, including copy and writing books (composition books), arithmetic and ciphering books, tuition bills, programs and tickets to graduations and other school events, certificates, trade cards, student identification cards, postcards, ribbons, and printed billheads and letterheads (with and without manuscript text). The collection highlights institutions, products, and services relating to personal knowledge, understanding, character building, and moral and social qualities including the tools, equipment, supplies, and structures used for learning and teaching these disciplines in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. This includes items associated with academic achievement, exhibits, lectures, and institutions of learning.

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