| Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
6658 | | Details | Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad | 1923 |
Birds eye view Map of the Pacific Coast in the vicinity of San Francisco |
Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad |
1923 |
LOC:3 |
| $295.00 | Mount-Tamalpais-and-Muir-Woods-Railroad | Birds-eye-view-Map-of-the-Pacific-Coast-in-the-vicinity-of-San-Francisco | An attractive original antique four-panel bird's eye view / map of the California Pacific coast in the vicinity of San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay from 1923.
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Elevation is shown in relief. The view stretches from Mount Shasta at top left to the Farallon Islands at the bottom right and extends from Lake Lagunitas at bottom left to Mount Hamilton. Includes towns ranging around San Pablo Bay and San Francisco Bay: San Jose, San Francisco, Palo Alto, Oakland, Sausalito, Napa, Sonoma, and Walnut Creek. At bottom left is a table of air line distances from the summit of Mt. Tamalpais. Sacramento is 73 miles distant and Mt. Shasta a long 237 mile crow-flight from Mt. Tamalpais.
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The map comprises four of eight panels of a brochure issued by the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad. Printed by Leighton Press, San Francisco, California. Dated in the plate at 1923. Verso includes photos and text. |