Humboldt County Collection (HCC) Map Collection, 1853-to date
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Humboldt County Collection (HCC) Map Collection, 1853-to date
Online content
Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Humboldt State University Library Special Collections staff
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 420 maps in database plus approximately 10 series
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Humboldt County Collection (HCC) Map Collection. Cal Poly Humboldt, Library Special Collections and Archives
Background
- Scope and content:
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The geographic focus of the HCC Maps Collection is Northwestern California, including towns, timber lands, railroad lines, waterways, and mines. Maps range in subject matter and purpose: coastal surveys, environmental inventories and analyses, geologic studies including earthquakes and landslides, public lands, maritime activities including shipwrecks, flood insurance and Sanborn maps, topographic and orthophotoquad maps. An initial effort to inventory and process this collection occurred in 1998 when two students created worksheets for each map; minimal repair was done at this time. An additional map filing case was purchased with preservation grant funding from NEH in 2006 to allow for further growth of the collection. In 2011 an experienced cartography student, Ryan Lewelling Winford, further inventoried and processed the collection, entering information about each map into a Microsoft Access database which can be searched on the Humboldt Room Map Collections page.
- Biographical / historical:
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Notable cartographers and map publishers include: Lentell; Doolittle; Forbes; Denny; Herrick; Belcher; Metsker; Susie Baker Fountain; Alderon Laird; Norman Smith; USGS; etc.
- Acquisition information:
- Individual maps as well as sets are received from various sources.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Real property - California - Humboldt County - Maps
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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The collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to Humboldt State University. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce in any format, please contact the Special Collections Librarian.
- Preferred citation:
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Humboldt County Collection (HCC) Map Collection. Cal Poly Humboldt, Library Special Collections and Archives
- Location of this collection:
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Third Floor, Room 3031 Harpst StreetArcata, CA 95521-8299, US
- Contact:
- (707) 826-3419