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Auction 187, Lot 219

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"[Lot of 2] Official San Francisco Map [and] San Francisco, the City of Enchantment [in] The Greeter's Guide of San Francisco Oakland and Berkeley",

Subject: San Francisco, California

Period: 1922-25 (dated)

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A. Official San Francisco Map, by Louis Roesch Co., dated 1922, printed color (14.9 x 8.6"). A detailed map showing the street-grid pattern of the city with a key at bottom right locating 36 points of interest. Two "wonder" drives are featured in red overprinting, providing a 25-mile driving tour of the city and a 100-mile tour of the broader region. Text above the map promotes the city "where the sun never scorches and the water never freezes." The verso contains small maps of Golden Gate Park, downtown, and the broader region. Published on behalf of the San Francisco Convention and Tourist League. Condition: There is minor extraneous creasing with tiny fold separations that are confined to the blank margins.

B. San Francisco, the City of Enchantment [in] The Greeter's Guide of San Francisco Oakland and Berkeley, by Hotel St. Francis, published 1925, black & white (9.6 x 6.5"). This 64-page tourist guide highlights "What to do, Where to go, and How to get there" in the Bay Area. The guide contains a simple centerfold map of San Francisco extending from the Railroad Depot west to Golden Gate Park and the Presido. Interspersed within the text are numerous advertisements along with single-page maps of Oakland, the Bay Region, and "Automobile Roads in California." Condition: Contents are mostly clean, paper wrappers are lightly foxed.

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Condition: B+

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Estimate: $100 - $130

Sold for: $70

Closed on 4/27/2022

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