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Map of the Day! – A Birds Eye View
Theme for the week: Birds Eye View of…
September 5-8, 2017
Birds eye view: Different perspectives comes with greater knowledge. Ever wonder what a town or a city looks like from above? Come on over to Shields Library to view these amazing 19th century maps and more! We should call it “Maps of the Day”, because we cannot decide on just one map for each day.
Happy Labor Day! The Map Collection will be closed on Monday, Sept 4.
Maps
Title: Woodland
(1920s)
Call Number: MAP G4364.W6A3 1920 .W6
Title: Bird’s eye view of Woodland, Yolo Co., Cal. 1871
by Augustus Koch (1870)
Call Number: MAP G4364.S2A3 1870 .K6 1989
Title: Birds eye view of the city of Sacramento
by Augustus Koch (1870)
Call Number: MAP G4364.S2A3 1870 .K6 1989
Title: View of Sacramento City as it appeared during the great inundation in January 1850
by George W. Casilear, and Henry Bainbridge (1850)
Call Number: MAP G4364.S2A3 1850 .C2
Title: Birdseye view of Berkeley Cal., 1891
by E.S. Moore and Ken Stein (1891)
Call Number: MAP G4364.B6A3 1891 .M6 1977
Title: San Diego, California, terminus of the Texas Railway, from the peninsula looking east across the bay.
by Alfred Edward Matthews, A.L Bancroft & Company, and Historic Urban Plans (1873)
Call Number: MAP G4364.S4 1873 .M2
Title: City of San Jose, Cal. 1875: from an elevation of 500 ft looking North
by Charles B. Gifford, W.C Gifford, and Historic Plans (1875)
Call Number: MAP G4364.S52A35 1875 .G5 1974
Title: Bird’s eye view of San Luis Obispo, Cal. 1877
by E.S Glover, A.L Bancroft & Company, and Historic Urban Plans (1877)
Call Number: MAP G4364.S53 1877 .G5
Title: Bird’s eye view of Santa Barbara, California, 1877. Looking North to the Santa Barbara Mountains
by E.S Glover, A.L Bancroft & Company, and Historic Urban Plans (1877)
Call Number: MAP G4364.S57 1877 .G5
Title: Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California, 1885
by W.W Elliot & Co., and Historic Plans (1885)
Call Number: MAP G 4364.S68A3 1885 .S3
Title: Stockton
by Kuchel & Dresel, Britton & Rey, and Historic Plans (1855)
Call Number: MAP G4364.S8A3 1855 .K8
Title: View of city of Stockton , the Manufacturing City of California
by Dakin Publishing Co. (1895)
Call Number: MAP G4364.S8A3 1895 .D21
Map Collection: Location and Hours
The Map Collection room is open to the public on the Lower Level of Shields Library, Monday-Friday, 1:00-5:00 p.m. (except holidays). To see the most accurate schedule, please visit this link: https://library.ucdavis.edu/guide/maps/#hours-2 .
Contact the Special Collections Department for map related questions by email at speccoll@ucdavis.edu or by phone at 530-752-1621.