1973 Millsap Pictorial Map of California Historical Events

HistoricalHomeFederalCA-millsap-1973
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Historical Map of Home Federal Country. California Historical Events 1540 - 1890. - Main View
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1973 Millsap Pictorial Map of California Historical Events

HistoricalHomeFederalCA-millsap-1973

Celebrating California history.
$275.00

Title


Historical Map of Home Federal Country. California Historical Events 1540 - 1890.
  1973 (dated)     43.25 x 31.25 in (109.855 x 79.375 cm)

Description


This is a 1973 Darrel Millsap pictorial map of California highlighting historical events.
A Closer Look
The whole is composed to emulate an old scroll, with 'burnt' and 'crinkled' edges as well as some illustrated areas of 'loss'. Missions, voyages of discovery, and other important moments in California's history are identified throughout. Pictorial vignettes illustrate 74 historic events across the state. The first 29 mark missions established between 1769 and 1823. The following 45 include events from the era of Westward Expansion: the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, the inauguration of the Pony Express, the completion of the transcontinental railroad, and the U.S. Army's experiments with using camels as transport during the 1850s.
Publication History and Census
This map was drawn by Darrel Millsap and published by the Home Federal Savings and Loan Association in 1973. We note four examples cataloged in OCLC which are part of the collections at the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library, Brigham Young University, California State University Fullerton, and the University of California Santa Barbara.

Cartographer


Darrel Wayne 'Bunky' Millsap (May 9, 1931 - April 11, 2012) was an American artist. Born in Ontario, California, Millsap began showing artistic prowess at a young age, drawing portraits and pictures of animals on paper and brown bags he found in his childhood home. He served in the U.S. Navy and was honorably discharged in 1953. After being discharged, he enrolled at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California and graduated in 1956 with a degree in Commercial Illustration. After graduating, Millsap began his career at Fred Kopp Studios in Los Angeles working for Hector Huerta. Only a few years later Millsap moved to San Diego and found work with Frye and Smith. He soon opted to start his own firm with his partner Robert Kinyon called Millsap/Kinyon Illustration. Millsap and Kinyon worked together until Kinyon died of cancer. After Kinyon's death, Millsap worked alone under the name Darrel Millsap Illustration until he retired in 1999. Millsap suffered a stroke a few years before his death and died in 2012 of complications arising from the stroke as well as diabetes and Parkinson's disease. Millsap married his wife Janice in 1959 and they were married for 49.5 years until Janice succumbed to cancer in 2008. They had three children, one of whom died in 1989. More by this mapmaker...

Condition


Good. Closed tear extending 2.5 inches into printed area in loser right corner professionally repaired on verso. Closed margin tears professionally repaired on verso. Light soiling in lower right corner.

References


OCLC 42933269.