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"A Cartograph of Southern California Showing How the Land of Sunshine... Has Become So Air-Minded That Everybody Flies Hither and Yon and Yon and Hither", White, Ruth Taylor
Subject: Southern California
Period: 1929 (dated)
Publication:
Color: Printed Color
Size:
10.1 x 9.4 inches
25.7 x 23.9 cm
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This small pictorial map of Southern California shows "how the Land of Sunshine has become so air-minded that everybody flies hither and yon and yon and hither." Filled with whimsical illustrations symbolic of the region and surmounted by an unusual pop-up airplane. The verso contains promotional text and illustration for Western Air Express. Complete with stamped envelope entitled "A Cartograph Commemorating Southern California's Third Air Mail Anniversary April 17, 1929."
References: Rumsey #8253.
Condition: A
The map is clean, colorful, and near fine. Used mailing envelope has some splits along the edges and a couple of small chips.
Estimate: $275 - $350
Price: $200
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