Nov 25, 2014 - Sale 2368

Sale 2368 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CALIFORNIA.) California Tourist: Yosemite, the Big-Tree Groves, Geysers, Monterey, and other Popular Summer Resorts. 18 pages and a larger map printed on both sides of one pink folding sheet, 15 3/4 x 17 inches; a few short separations at the folds; rail lines shown in red on map. [San Francisco?], 20 April 1883

Additional Details

This elaborate map and timetable from the Southern Pacific Railroad Company was apparently issued quarterly; this issue was designated as Number 2. Schedules are given for a variety of excursions, all starting in San Francisco, for the April to October 1883 tourist season. The rail line map is titled "Map Showing the Summer Resorts on the Pacific Coast," and shows destinations as distant as Fresno, Monterey, and Reno. OCLC lists only one copy, Number 3 from June 1883; this issue not in Currey & Kruska, and none known at auction.