Scope and Content Manuscript leatherbound book "Made at request Los Angeles Terminal R'y. Co. by Grove & Wilkinson, Searchers of records - Vol. 3. Premption Claims," with alternate title on spine: "Abstract of title to salt flat inner bay & rattlesnake island & dead man's island, vol. 3 . . . no. 210, 351 pages of manuscript transcriptions of surveys, deeds, and court records re land titles in Southern California [terminal?] area, sources include Office of Surveyor General, Sacramento; US Surveyor...

Scope and Content Manuscript leatherbound book "Made at request Los Angeles Terminal R'y. Co. by Grove & Wilkinson, Searchers of records - Vol. 4. Premption Claims," with alternate title on spine: "Abstract of title to salt flat inner bay & rattlesnake island & dead man's island, vol. 4 . . . no. 211," 328 pp, with loose pages at back endpaper. Manuscript transcriptions of surveys, deeds, and court records re land titles in Southern California [terminal?] area, "from Superior Court of the County...

Scope and Content Single pocket expanding folder labelled "Tract Maps" containing the following documents (Many maps have manuscript calculations in pencil, presumably by Francis Bates):1. "Map of the ocean front of the City of Long Beach, from Golden Street to Alamitos Beach," Charles T. Healey and William F. Sweeney, 16 pp blueline print (1889)2. "Map of the American Colony Tract," Charles T. Healey, 8 pp blueline print (1882-1887)3. "Official Plat of the Town of...

Scope and Content Single pocket expanding folder titled "Tract Maps and Miscellaneous" containing the following documents:1. "Knoll Park Addition, a subdivision of a portion of the American Colony Tract and townsite of Long Beach, California, also fractional portions of . . . Property of Seaside Water Company, City of Long Beach, Cal.," Sroufe and Crowley, blueline print (1904)2. "Tract No. 279, being a re-subdivision in the City of Long Beach, Los Angeles County, Cal. of . . . Ocean...

Scope and Content Single pocket expanding folder containing the following documents:1. Bound manuscript figures, "Cross-sections, San Gabriel River, Anaheim Street to Turning Basin, December, 1939," Francis Bates, 69 pp (1939)2. "Co-ordinate control C. S. map of 1859," "Map of a part of the coast of California from Point Fermin eastward to San Gabriel River, 1859," US Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, Superintendent, Section X. Same map as in Envelope R-2, but with different markings on print...

Scope and Content Single pocket expanding folder containing the following documents:1. Bound typescript with maps, manuscript tables and figures, bound-in, "Description of Lands of Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Southern California Edison Co. Ltd., The Pacific Dock & Terminal Co., in City of Long Beach, Calif., as surveyed, 1937-1940," by Francis Bates 83 pp plus four maps: "UPRR Parcel 1, SCE Co. Parcel 1, SCE Co. Parcel 2," "UPRR Parcel 2, UPRR...

Scope and Content Single pocket expanding folder containing the following documents:1. Bound typescript, "Reports and Comments: D.E. Hughes, November 30, 1915, August 12, 1931, January 16, 1936," including "Report of D.E. Hughes, November 30, 1915," 83 pp with narrative discussion of earlier surveys of San Pedro Harbor surveys, especially noting the limits of their accuracy and sources of their errors, with some tables (1915), "Report of D.E. Hughes, August 12, 1931, calculations," 9 pp of...

Scope and Content Single pocket expanding folder containing the following documents:1. Bound typescript, "Interpretation of patent description of the boundaries of Rancho Los Cerritos and Rancho San Pedro," S.M. Marshall, 33 pp, with table of contents and two cover letters. Report produced for PD&TC re interpreting boundary description between San Pedro and Los Cerritos claims, navigability and tidal character of San Gabriel River, and City of Long Beach claim to channel no. 1; four maps...