Heading: (Southern Pacific Railroad)
Author:
Title: From the Crescent City to the Golden Gate via the Sunset Route of the Southern Pacific Company
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:H.S. Crocker & Company
Date Published: 1890
Description:

46 pp. + [1] chart of distances between cities, [1] map plate. Profusely illustrated with woodcut illustrations of various cities, plus a color lithograph and decorated folding map frontispiece. 25.5x17 cm (10x6¾") pale yellow wrappers, printed in red and black (front wrapper reads: The Southern Highway).

A nicely illustrated booklet presented by the Passenger Department of the Southern Pacific Company. The color lithographed folding map at front illustrates much of the United States, showing "Map of the Southern Pacific Company and Connections. 1890." Plus an inset along the top edge, shows "Along the Sunset Route," and includes small vignettes of various attractions along the way. The woodcut illustrations show views and vignettes of various sights and cities from New Orleans to San Francisco (along the Sunset Route of Southern Pacific), including San Antonio, the Rio Grande, Missions of Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Yosemite, San Francisco, and Tahoe. Also lists "Where to Go!" summer and winter resorts in California and mineral springs in California. Purple contemporary rubberstamp on verso of map frontispiece reads, "For Tickets and Information Call on C.W. Hole, Comm 'l Agt. El Paso, Texas."

Touch of wear at wrapper extremities; hole at gutter edge of page 31/32 not affecting text or illustration; else fine.