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Auction 188, Lot 204

"Los Angeles, California and Vicinity"

Subject: Los Angeles, California

Period: 1923 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Printed Color

Size:
6.4 x 8.3 inches
16.3 x 21.1 cm
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An attractive souvenir booklet by S.H. Kress & Company containing 24 early images of Los Angeles and the surrounding region. Features illustrations of the courthouse, The Coliseum, Charlie Chaplin's home, Westlake Park, orange groves, a beach scene, and more. Text on the inside of the front wrapper highlights the region's favorable climate, good roads, and strong economy including the oil industry where "Los Angeles is probably the greatest oil exporting port in the world." Bound in pictorial paper wrappers. There are no past sales records or institutional examples located on OCLC.

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Condition: A

Contents are clean and bright with a faint dampstain along the top of the gutter. There is minor soiling to the front wrapper.

Estimate: $140 - $170

Sold for: $100

Closed on 6/22/2022

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