Original Brochure with Map - "California State Parks and Historic Monuments: A Complete Key Map to California's 70 Parks and Historic Monuments; Let's Go Places with Richfield"

Language: English

Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.Barry Cassidy Rare Books

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Original publisher's printed color folding brochure that features a road map of California on one side. When folded, the front and back panels show a wrap-around color illustration of two people touring a scenic wooded coastline by car. Part of the map side and the verso contain a numbered key corresponding to California's seventy State Parks and historic monuments. No date, circa 1935 (interior map has a copyright date of 1935). 4" x 9" folded. 18" x 23" unfolded. Folds open into twelve panels printed on front and back. A few blue and white illustrations of California places and landmarks, complete. Map is very clean and intact except for light to moderate age toning and occasional tiny splits along original fold lines and where they intersect. A Very Good copy. This is a folding brochure featuring a road map of California. The road map, in turn, features the locations of seventy California State Parks and California historic monuments. The map is centered upon the state of California and also shows principal highways and freeways, California cities and towns, California county lines, and natural geographical features such as islands and bodies of water. At the bottom of the map is a legend corresponding to geographical symbols on the map as well as an index of the seventy notable places of interest in California. Among the seventy listed locations are Hiouchi Redwoods, Dry Lagoon Beach, Stephens Grove, Russian Gulch, FOrt Ross Historic Monument, Sonoma Coast Park, Mt. Tamalpais, San Francisco Marina, Castle Crags, McArthur-Burney Falls, Bidwell Park, Donner Historic Monument, Bliss-Rubicon Point Park, Wanton Natural Bridges Beach, Sea Cliff Beach, San Juan Bautista Historic Monument, Fremont Park, Junipero Serra Monument, Point Lobos Reserve, Morro Bay, Tule Elk Refuge, Mt. San Jacinto, Carlsbad Beach, Mission Bay, San Pasqual Battlefield Historic Monument, Cuyamaca Rancho, and Borego Desert. The main interior map was prepared exclusively for the Richfield Oil Company of California by H. M. Gousha Company of Chicago. Also promoted is The Richfield Reporter, a radio news broadcast. On the verso is a key or list containing brief numbered descriptions corresponding to the numbered places of interest on the map. The non-map side of the brochure also includes information about California State Park services and features, a radio log of Pacific Coast stations, and suggested places for fishing.…

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Bibliographic details

Title
Original Brochure with Map - "California State Parks and Historic Monuments: A Complete Key Map to California's 70 Parks and Historic Monuments; Let's Go Places with Richfield"
Author
Richfield Oil Company
Condition
Very Good
Binding
No Binding
Language
English
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Transportation, Inc. Automobiles, Trains & Ships, Travels and Voyages, Western Americana

Barry Cassidy Rare Books

Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

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