| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 6845 |  | Details | Fairchild Aerial Surveys Inc. | 1930 |
| Scarce view of Hollywood Stars Homes Beverly Hills |
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Fairchild Aerial Surveys Inc. |
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| 1930 |
| LOC:89 |
| $400.00 | Fairchild-Aerial-Surveys-Inc- | Scarce-view-of-Hollywood-Stars-Homes-Beverly-Hills | Scarce, early photographic oblique "airplane" birds-eye view of Beverly Hills, California annotated with numerals keyed to homes of Hollywood stars. These movie stars include Buster Keaton, Tom Mix, Mary Pickford, Douglass Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, Marlene Dietrich, and Will Rogers. The view probably dates between 1926 and 1933 based on the marriage duration of King Vidor and Eleanor Boardman (Home # 22) . By Fairchild Aerial Surveys, N.Y.C. Published in an unknown magazine. Verso with glamour photographs of period stars.
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The view looks roughly north with the Beverly Hills Hotel, established 1912, slightly to the left of the center. This item may be the earliest published aerial photograph of Photomap of Beverly Hills to locate the homes of movie stars and likely predates Landacre's "Newe Mappe of the Heavens."
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"When Wallace Beery flies back from his island camp, or when Ben Lyon volplanes down home to see Bebe and the baby, this is where the magic carpet of Hollywood looks to the returning wanderers of the sky."
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