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Cawston Ostrich Farm, located in South Pasadena, California, United States, was opened in 1896 by Edwin Cawston. It was one of America's first ostrich farms [ 1 ] and was located in the Arroyo Seco Valley just three miles (5 km) north of downtown Los Angeles and occupied nine acres . [ 2 ]
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Ostrich farming in North America began in the late 19th century, initially focusing on the production of feathers, which were highly prized for fashion accessories. [3] The first ostrich farm was established by Charles Sketchley in California where the climate was similar to the ostriches' native habitat in Africa. [ 4 ]
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Typically, little or no detail is shown for land not owned by the person or organisation commissioning the map. Estate maps were frequently accompanied by field books that contained the key to symbols on the map and had information about tenants and crops. Where the field book has not survived, the usefulness of the map is greatly diminished. [10]
The map carved on the globe is an extremely close, [1] if not identical, [2] match to the Hunt–Lenox Globe, a copper globe reliably dated to about 1510. The owner [ 2 ] of the Ostrich Egg Globe, Stefaan Missinne, claims that it was made in the early 16th century and is therefore the first globe ever to depict the New World .