1932 Olympic Map of Los AngelesBy: Mary Hall Atwood Date of Original: 1932 (dated) Los Angeles, CA Original Size: 19 x 24 inches This promotional pictorial map of Los Angeles and Southern California was created by Mary Hall Atwood and published in 1932 by the Union Oil Company as an official guide to the Tenth Olympic Games. Issued as Los Angeles was rapidly expanding, it blends artistic charm, geographic detail, and Olympic celebration, and became one of the signature pictorial

cities and towns labeled in this map are all interlinked by lines of industrial transportation that include railroads

The accuracy and host of details are made lively and appealing by whimsical qualities which were a distinguishing features of pictorial maps of the era

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urging viewers to “Offer your services to your Red Cross

Elk Rapids

and motor routes are clearly drawn

others were far more permanent

principal regions

indigenous peoples are represented in a ceremonial dance circling round the first white men who landed there in 1542

and northwest Brazil