This collection contains maps depicting South San Francisco. Maps including South City’s earliest geographical formation, Rancho Buri Buri and the town of Baden, and early city platting and streets layout. It includes a blueprint map of property owned by the South San Francisco Land and Improvement Company. Some maps indicate sites of early companies and industries (e.g. Pacific Coast Steel, SSF Union stockyards, US Naval Radio Station, Western Investment Co.; Western Pipe and Steel Co., WP Fuller, Swift and Company, American Marble and Mosaic, Metal and Thermit, Stieger Pottery Work, Western Meat Co., Jupiter Steel, Southern Pacific Rail Road, Swift Avenue Electric Railway tracks, The Federal Wireless Co., Schaw Batcher Shipbuilding, Carson Chemical Co., Baden Brick Company, Pacific Coast Steel, and Enterprise Foundry) and the bay coastline before and after landfill. There are also tide plot maps with owners’ names listed.