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As a collector of books and maps of Baja California... I am happy to share my collection with fellow Baja enthusiasts.

Let me know what you would like to see!

First, the most valuable maps those of us had who statred going to Baja in the 1960's were those drawn by Howard Gulick... author of the Lower California Guidebook. My friend Doug Eernisse, made a web page to show Howard's maps... Just click on the peninsula map on this link to see a close up map of that area:
http://biology.fullerton.edu/biol517...baja_1962.html

This 1905 mining map of northern Baja is pretty interesting:


Here's a 1941 Baja transpeninsular road map:


One of my favorites is this 1930 Baja wall map:


The Jesuit's 1757 map showing the missions, including 2 'lost' missions is popular:


In 1927, the Auto Club had maps showing the road from Tijuana to El Rosario:


This rare map from the Bancroft Library collection was made by Jesuit padre and explorer Eusebio Francisco Kino in 1702... Perhaps the first to correctly show California as a peninsula. Maps still continued to be made that shows it as an island for many decades after. Note that the missions of Loreto and San Xavier are on the map, the only ones until 1705 when Ligui and Mulege were founded.


I have more, stay tuned!... Also, I am happy to provide a close up of any spot on Baja from any map I have!

Gracias Baja Gringo for adding the tags to show the maps... The above is a tiny sampling of what I have scanned from my books and maps collection. Any Talk Baja members who would like to see more or a close up of any part of any map... I am happy to provide you with it!

David, you know what I like...

ANYTHING from the Colonet - Camalu - San Quintin - El Rosario area...

Here's a selection for you Ron:

1888:



1905:



1919 (from 1905 survey):



1919:



1927:



1930:



1941:



1962 north:



1962 south:



Let me know if you need more or closer in of any!

Thanks David - those are great!

David, you got any detailed maps of the Valle de Trinidad area?

Thanks!

Gracias!

Originally Posted by k-pasa

David, you got any detailed maps of the Valle de Trinidad area?

Thanks!

Here are maps from 1905, 1962, 1919, 1930, and 1941 showung Valle de Trainidad

Here is Valle de Trinidad on an 1888 map!

I am still fielding requests for close ups on any of the old maps...

Any from the Puerto Nuevo area?

Originally Posted by noproblemo

Any from the Puerto Nuevo area?

There isn't as much 'history' up there by Rosarito... but I will give you what I got... stay tuned!

Hi, excellent maps you have,

do you have some maps of Bahia de los Angeles area?

Thanks

Here is a map DavidK has previously posted that I like. Are you looking for more detailed maps of a certain area???


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The map-meister

Originally Posted by Zurdok

Hi, excellent maps you have,

do you have some maps of Bahia de los Angeles area?

Thanks

YOU BET! Sorry, I never saw this reply before... Stand by:

I am not sure how to put captions under each map when they are uploaded through Baja Gringo's software?

The 10 maps showing Bahia de los Angeles are:
1757
1864
1888
1905
1919
1930
1941
1962
1975
2007

Okay, I previewed, and the maps are not being shown in order as listed... The top one (just below) 1864 then below it is: 1941, 1905, 1919, 1930, 1962, 1975, 2007, 1757, 1888, 1941.

So this one; 1962 eh?



I talked to someone from El Rosario who knows that place as El Muertito.

Originally Posted by Marty Cortez

So this one; 1962 eh?



I talked to someone from El Rosario who knows that place as El Muertito.

No, that is the 1975 Baja California Guidebook map. The 1962 one also has El Muertito... named for a child's gravesite not far from Punta Rosarito ('The Wall').

Do you know why the maps I posted in order are showing up scrambled? Can you (or I) do something to fix them.

Otherwise, when I have time I will delete them and post from Photobucket... that way I can add captions under each picture (the date, etc.).

Originally Posted by David K

No, that is the 1975 Baja California Guidebook map. The 1962 one also has El Muertito... named for a child's gravesite not far from Punta Rosarito ('The Wall').

Do you know why the maps I posted in order are showing up scrambled? Can you (or I) do something to fix them.

Otherwise, when I have time I will delete them and post from Photobucket... that way I can add captions under each picture (the date, etc.).

That is a good question David and reminded me of a feature we have here that may solve this. Each forum member has a picture album option in their profile, under "networking", that can be used to store up to 100 pictures in each album I believe. You can store the photos by topic/place/date with album/image comments.

Then you can just right click on any image there, copy the image location and post it here on the forum using the post image tool above and place comments inline.

Does that make sense???

In the lower left corner of this map is an interesting comment... "50,000 wild cats roam the island". Anybody know the history of that?