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Abstract The Mount Diablo meridian is named for the location of its initial point on Mount Diablo in California. The meridian extends to the north and south from Mount Diablo and is used to describe lands in most of northern California. Along this meridian is a fractional township area encompassing land in northern California adjacent to the Oregon-California border. Collection consists of a copy of a map of January 6, 1873, made in 1907. The area mapped is directly to the South from the...

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The collection focuses on Modoc Indians and the Modoc War of 1872-1873, John Charles Frémont's Second and Third Expeditions to the American West, and U.S. Supreme Court litigation between California and Nevada about a boundary dispute. Francis S. “Van” Landrum was a businessman, registered engineer and land surveyor in Klamath Falls, Oregon as well as a noted amateur historian and author.

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Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540-1596), was a pre-eminent English navigator, politician, and civil engineer of the Elizabethan age. Collection contains stories on the hoax, concerning his brass plate, supposedly found in San Francisco in 1936.

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Jesse Douglas Carr was a California pioneer, politician, banker, stage contractor, prominent land owner and stock raiser. He was one of the largest and wealthiest land owners in California. Collection consists of copies of two plot maps, showing Jesse Carr's ranching activities in the California-Oregon border area and the property he bought from various persons in 1876, 1883, 1885, 1886, and 1887.