Lister, James Wren
1949

Pictorial map of Laurel Canyon Hollywood Sunset Boulevard

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Laurel Canyon's Own Map

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Very rare and desirable Wren Lister pictorial map of Laurel Canyon This is a rare cartographic record of the Canyon and the Hollywood Hills before they became the haunt and home to 70's counterculture figures and music stars such as Joni Mitchel, James Taylor, Jim Morrison, Neil Young, and Brian Wilson.

A California cartographic rarity, no holdings of Wren's map are found anywhere including in WorldCat, AMPR, or the Internet. Only one record of a past sale of this item.

Laurel Canyon is a mountainous neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of the Santa Monica Mountains, near Los Angeles, California.

Artist James Wren Lister (1897-1952) was born in England but settled in Los Angeles in 1925. Lister is also credited with a fine, colorful birds-eye view of Avalon Town on Santa Catalina Island California in 1948, a year before this item was created.

CREATOR: Lister, James Wren

PUBLICATION DATE: 1949

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States

BODY OF WATER: N/A

CONDITION: Good.  Age toned. 2" tear at right center margin closed archivally from the verso. Minor marginal tears closed with no loss. Trace of uneven age-toning on verso. See photo.

COLORING: None

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SIZE: 14 " x 11 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 87

PRICE: $

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