| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 6869 |  | Details | Title Insurance and Trust Company Los Angeles | 1929 |
| Rare Map Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Los Angeles County |
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Title Insurance and Trust Company Los Angeles |
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| 1929 |
| LOC:78 |
| $1,350.00 | Title-Insurance-and-Trust-Company-Los-Angeles | Rare-Map-Old-Spanish-and-Mexican-Ranchos-of-Los-Angeles-County | "The Old Spanish and Mexican Ranchos of Los Angeles County" is apparently the first advertising map of that title published by the Title Insurance and Trust Company of Los Angeles, just one year after the firm was incorporated in 1928. Compared to later editions this earliest 1929 edition appears as though it was produced more quickly, fitting for a company that was just beginning to take advertising seriously. The 1929 edition is smaller, more colorful, and much less elaborately executed than two later maps by the same name that the firm published in 1930 and 1937.
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Rare. Not found in Rumsey or WorldCat.
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Compared to the 1930 edition the 1929 edition lacks the elaborate compass rose and distance scale, the Spanish missions are drawn more simply and they lack the founding dates found in the 1930 edition. In the 1930 edition the artist has labeled public lands as such, and has filled the Pacific Ocean with a sailing ship, flying fish, and sea monsters, familiar scenes that cartographers have used for hundreds of years.
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Title Insurance Building. 433 So. Spring Street. Los Angeles. Copyright 1929.
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