Hamilton's illustrated auto road map : California tour book showing actual photos of the locations of turns, forks, cross roads, landmarks, hotels, resorts, inns, garages and points of interest, with much supplementary information to motorist and tourist

Hamilton's Illustrated Auto Road Map Co.

Edité par Los Angeles, Los Angeles, 1913

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Original stiff wrappers with cloth, well worn, lightly shaken, front joint splitting. Photo on front cover, folding map, and inside back cover all have some loss from adhesion. 256 pp., folding map inside back cover. This is a wonderful relic of the early automobile era in California and Nevada. Unlike most maps or atlases which simply show roads, this production uses photographs to show key points along routes, notably the points at which the motorist was to turn. These small pictures (most are less than 2 cm. square) are of buildings, signs, houses, trees, windmills or any other appropriate landmark. These are undoubtedly the only images of many of these locations as they appeared in the early 20th century, as most of the structures shown no longer exist. Special emphasis is placed on hotels and garages which would be most useful for travelers. Among these is an image of the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, built in 1904 and a survivor of the 1906 earthquake. This guide covers all of California, stretching south to Tijuana, Mexico, Klamath Falls, Oregon, and Reno and Carson City, Nevada. The small folding map at the back is titled "How to Get Out of Town" and shows the Los Angeles area from Ventura County to Pomona. In spite of the amount of use this copy has seen over the years, this is a very unusual and important road atlas as, unlike most atlases which have maps which only show where the roads ran, this work has hundreds of actual images of scenes along the routes. OCLC 35746731 (2 loc.).

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• Titre: Hamilton's illustrated auto road map : California tour book showing actual photos of the locations of turns, forks, cross roads, landmarks, hotels, resorts, inns, garages and points of interest, with much supplementary information to motorist and tourist
• Éditeur: Los Angeles, Los Angeles
• Date de parution: 1913
• Reliure: Couverture souple
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