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Condición: Very Good. 4 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 21 x 30 cms. Category: Map Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

None. Condición: None. Large folding map, 55 × 57.5 cm (21⅝ × 22⅝ in.), printed in black and blue-green, with inset map, compass rose, scale in feet, and detailed "Water Front Index." Published by the Harbor Department of the City of Los Angeles, with the facsimile signature of J. W. Ludlow, Assistant Harbor Engineer. Verso printed with the December 1918 map supplement to the San Pedro weekly The Harbor Buoy, "Information Concerning the Port of Los Angeles," together with a large advertisement for the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce. Few tears restored, paper supplied around left top corner (not affecting the image), otherwise very good. An unusually detailed commercial and promotional map of the Port of Los Angeles at the close of the First World War, issued at a formative moment in its transformation into a major commercial and industrial harbor. The map was intended to advertise the harbor to shippers, manufacturers, industrial concerns, investors, and other prospective businesses, presenting in a single document its existing infrastructure, commercial advantages, and ambitious program of future development. The map encompasses San Pedro, Wilmington, Terminal Island, Long Beach and the inner and outer harbors, mapping existing wharves, channels, railroad connections, industrial sites and municipal facilities alongside projected improvements. Its detailed "Water Front Index" identifies individual berths and their commercial occupants, including the McCormick Lumber Company, Southern Pacific Railroad, Globe Mills Grain Elevator No. 8, San Pedro Lumber Company, Kerckhoff-Cuzner Mill & Lumber Company, Standard Oil Company ship-loading station, Los Angeles Ship Building and Dry Dock Company, National Engineering Corporation, Ralph J. Chandler Ship Building Company, Marine Equipment Company, West Coast Ship Building Company, Diamond Match Company, California Food Products Company, Garbutt and Walsh Boat Builders, Hammond Lumber Company, and numerous municipal wharves, transit sheds, warehouses, fish wharves and canneries. The reverse effectively supplies the commercial prospectus accompanying the map. Particular emphasis is placed upon the harbor's growing commercial capacity. The text describes Los Angeles as "the largest import lumber port in the world" and supplies comparative figures for harbor commerce in 1916, 1917 and 1918. Lumber, petroleum, fishing, shipbuilding, rail transportation and warehousing are presented not simply as existing industries but as evidence of the facilities available to businesses considering the port. At the foot of the sheet, the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce addresses prospective investors and residents directly: "San Pedro Has a $3,000,000 Monthly Pay Roll" followed by: "San Pedro needs hundreds of homes for the 18,000 workers here NOW." Published in November 1918, in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, the map captures the harbor at the threshold of the enormous commercial expansion of the following years. Contemporary figures show that harbor commerce continued to grow sharply after the war; by 1921 annual commerce had reached approximately 4.3 million tons valued at $188 million. The map was issued as a supplement to The Harbor Buoy, a scarce San Pedro weekly founded in 1917 and edited and published by Alfred L. Bolsta. The 1920 N. W. Ayer & Son's Newspaper Annual and Directory records a of only 1,589 copies, considerably limiting the original distribution of such supplements.  Overall an interesting example of the map, in which Harbor Department and San Pedro's business community attempting to sell the harbor as a place for commerce and industrial investment.  Apparently unrecorded. No other example of this November 1918 Harbor Department map, or of the December 1918 Harbor Buoy supplement on which it appears, has been located in the institutional catalogues, digitized collections, or market records consulted. The American Geographical Society Library preserves a different and substantially smaller Los A. …