Scarce road map of California & Nevada
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Description
Author: Rand McNally & Co.
Title: Rand McNally Junior Road Map California, Nevada
Place Published: Chicago
Publisher:Rand McNally & Co.
Date Published: c.1926
Description:
Color printed map. 44x28.5 cm (17¼x11¼") plus margins. Folding to 23x10.3 cm (9x4"), with panel title "California by Motor."
Scarce map "prepared for the California Hotel Association and approved by them," with a list of members of the association on verso, along with 14 illustrations from photographs of California scenes and landmarks. This copy with ink notation in the map margin, and a short ink note beneath one of the pictures. OCLC lists only one example of the map in this format, at the Denver Public Library.
The images from photographs are:
City Hall, San Francisco -- Feather River Canyon -- Scene in Yosemite -- Beach scene February 22nd San Francisco -- Lake Tahoe -- Lassen Peak, Lassen Volcanic National Park -- State Capitol building, Sacramento -- Mount Shasta -- Muir Woods -- 17 Mile Drive, Del Monte -- Oakland sky-line view from Lake Merritt -- Mount Tamalpais, Marin County -- Memorial Chapel, Leland Stanford University, Palo Alto -- Greek Theatre [sic], University of California, Berkeley.
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