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Miscellaneous typescript reports re surveying

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Miscellaneous typescript reports re surveying

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Typescript reports re tidelands area surveys, D.E. Hughes, under cover letter William W. Clary to Henry M. Isaacs, reading "enclosed are copies of further memoranda [sic] furnished us by Mr. D.E. Hughes"

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Correspondence between General Land Office and Mandeville (California Surveyor General) re surveys of confirmed private land claims, positive photostat

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Bound 8 page typescript, by Charles L. Leeds and A.L. Sonderegger, with attached correspondence to Sonderegger re tidal observations and positive photostat of manuscript tidal observations discussing tidal observations made by W.W. Tincher for the Strand Improvement Company and the relation of tidal observations to Rancho boundaries

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Typescript notes, signed "D.E. Hughes, November 14, 1915," re surveys of harbor area, 16 pp. No pages missing from pagination, but descriptive cover sheet is absent.

Scope and Content "Ordinance no. C-36, an ordinance granting to Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns, a franchise covering the construction, maintenance and operation of a steam commercial railway," positive and negative photostats labeled "Franchise No 6101" (passed by City of Long Beach) (1922)"Ordinance no. C-1083, an ordinance granting to Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, a corporation, its successors and assigns, a franchise...

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Bound typescript by H.A. Marmer discussing the seiche phenomenon generally and particularly in San Pedro Bay and Long Beach Harbor, concluding that although seiche in LA Harbor in 1930s was large, it was not so at time claims were established and was not a factor in determination of mean high water at that time with figures of tide gauge records.

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Bound typescript by A.L. Sonderegger, 39 pp with table of contents, plates and appendices, discusses discrepancies within Coast Survey data, between Coast Survey datum and US Engineer's datum, and due to seismic movement during Long Beach earthquake of 1933.

Scope and Content Bound typescript by Charles T. Leeds, 67 pp with table of contents, twelve exhibits and appendices A-J. Discusses tidal observations at the harbor, bench mark locations, and changes in sea level datum and methods of computation for determining mean sea level at Long Beach Outer Harbor.Appendices:A. BibliographyB. Correspondence from USC&GS to A.L. Sonderegger re descriptions of bench marks, typescript (1911) C. Report by Division of Tides...