A highly detailed street map of Houston by the Ashburn Map Company, whose maps are distinctive for their use of bright coloring. Extends to include Jacinto City, Pasadena, South Houston, and Bellaire. Red overprinting alerts the reader to “The Shamrock/America’s Magnificent Hotel” with an illustration of the hotel near Rice University. The Shamrock was the largest hotel built in America in the 1940’s. Life Magazine called its Grand Opening in 1949 "...the most dazzling exhibition of evening dresses and big names ever seen in Texas. Everyone had to concede it was quite a party and quite a hotel." The hotel, however, struggled and was razed in 1987. Self-folding (4.0 x 9.5") with a picture of the hotel on the front wrapper.

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Condition: A

Issued folding on a clean bright sheet with a couple of tiny splits at the fold junctions.