1933 Auto Club of Southern California Map of Southern California and Nevada

This is a c. 1933 Automobile Club of Southern California map of southern California and southwestern Nevada. Depicting the region from Tonopah, Nevada to Baja California and from the Sequoia National Park to Arizona and Utah, the region's major highways snake their way across the barren landscape. Cities and towns are labeled throughout, along with rivers and lakes. Its many mountain ranges are illustrated artistically and identified, but elevations are not indicated. Red and blue manuscript notations, which appear to be drawn in crayon, trace what are presumably road trip itineraries, but that is unclear. Perhaps this particular map was used to keep a child entertained while their parents explored the area during two separate trips.

Publication History and Census

This map was created for and published by the Automobile Club of Southern California c. 1933. As this map is undated, and was published in multiple editions, it is difficult to know exactly when this map was published. The University of Nevada Las Vegas catalogs an edition of this map dating to the early 1930s, while other institutions, including Cornell University, the University of Chicago, the Colorado School of Mines, and the University of Arizona, catalog their examples as dating from the early 1940s.