Godwin, William Harrison
William Harrison Godwin (March 21, 1899 - January 11, 1984), who went by Harrison, was an American cartoonist, pictorial map artist, and hotelier active in California during the early to middle parts of the 20th century. Harrison was born in Hackettstown, New Jersey. Harrison was a cartoonist with the Los Angeles Examiner and published two daily strips. With regard to cartographic material he published just three maps, San Francisco, Hollywood, and North America, all between the years of 1927 and 1929. The San Francisco and Hollywood maps were the first and second maps in a planned series of American cities, each taking some three months to complete. Curiously, no further maps in the series materialized. In addition to his cartoon work Harrison, in partnership with his brother Fred, owned Carmel-by-the-Sea's La Playa Hotel, where Harrison worked as a manager. Later, in 1940, Harrison sold his interest in the La Playa and acquired full ownership of the Pine Inn, also in Carmel and still active. Harrison and Fred Godwin and are credited with popularizing Carmel as a tourist destination. Little else is known of his life.
Hollywood at the End of the Silent Film Era.
Map of Hollywood Showing Principal Streets and Places of Interest.
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This is Harrison Godwin's 1928 pictorial map of Hollywood, California, the rarest of his creations and a masterpiece of pictorial cartography. It provides a colorful, raucous, and molecularly local snapshot of the film industry near the end of the Silent Film Era and the advent of the 'Golden Age of Hollywood.' (more details)