Six [6] RADIAL ZONE MAPS - CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY ROADSIDE BEAUTIFICATION SURVEY, 1932

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California Dept of Public Works, Division of Highways, 1932

1st eds., Fine

Six [6] RADIAL ZONE MAPS - CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY ROADSIDE BEAUTIFICATION SURVEY, 1932.

California Dept of Public Works, Division of Highways 1932.

27x24” – folded to 9x12"

These six maps comprise a roadside beautification survey showing the distance of historic trails, monuments, and buildings to major highways within each radial zone area.  Depicting Central and Southern California highways, missions, historic buildings and monuments, recreational trails and campgrounds, and even dirigible bases!  Reliefs are shown by contours and spot heights; with radial distances from the center of the zone.

• San Diego Zone – Plate 8 – The map boundaries are Mission Viejo to the north and Otay Mesa to the south.
• San Bernadino Zone - Plate 9 –Parts of Los Angeles to the west and Cleveland National Forest to the Southeas; also includes the Owens Valley to the north. Los Angeles also  has its own roadside beautification survey. 
• Los Angeles Vicinity- Plate 10 - Ventura on the north to South Coast [Orange County]
• Santa Barbara Zone -Plate 11 –Guadalupe to the northwest and Santa Monica to the southeast. 
• San Francisco Zone – Plate 12 - Point Reyes to Pacifica
• Sacramento Zone – Plate 13 - Colusa to the north and Manteca to the south. A portion of this survey includes Sonoma and Napa counties, also found in the San Francisco Area Zone, and Lake Tahoe to the east.

Though labeled plates 8-13, these six maps are all that were published.  Plates 1-8 were images in an accompanying 53-page publication not present here: California Highway Roadside Beautification Survey : Progress Report. California Division of Highways, 1932.

CONDITION: FINE; as-new with sharp folds, no defects.  In original manilla envelope with string tie; printed label. The envelope is Very Good.

Scarce: E-copies are online, but none currently in the online market and only 2 of the printed maps in WorldCat, with no complete sets.