1940s "Scenic California" Photographic Print Folio

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A Scenic California photographic print folio, published in 1944 by The National Color Press of San Francisco. The folio features a blue and yellow lithograph illustration to the cover. The folio contains seventeen colored half-tone prints depicting California views. Per text printed to the folio cover, the images show ‘points of interest along Southern Pacific Lines’. Featured images include Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco; Mount Lassen, Only Active Volcano in the United States; Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe; San Francisco, Oakland Bay Bridge (Air View); Pit River Bridge, World’s Highest Double Deck Bridge, Shasta Reservoir, Calif; Bucking Snow in the High Sierras; Crater Lake, Oregon; Mission San Miguel Arcangel, San Miguel, Founded 1797; Effects of Pioneer Hydraulic Gold Mining, California; Upper and Lower Angora Lakes, Fallen Leaf Lake and Lake Tahoe; Shasta Dam, California, World’s Second Largest Concrete Structure; Coit Memorial Tower, Telegraph Hill, San Francisco; Historic Donner Lake, California; Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Carmel, Founded 1770; State Capitol, Sacramento, California; and City Hall, San Francisco.

Condition

- portfolio shows foxing and discoloration, as well as smudges to verso; “Mount Lassen” shows image bleed to verso; seven prints have tack holes to top corners; creasing to top corners of “Mission San Miguel” print.

Dimensions

- measures grouped in portfolio.

Item #

17ATL039-160