Vintage Lake Tahoe Bird’s-Eye View Pictorial Map by Gerald A. Eddy, circa 1945

Name: Vintage Lake Tahoe Bird’s-Eye View Pictorial Map by Gerald A. Eddy, circa 1945
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14364
Price: 605 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1945
Kind: Maps
Size: 43.9 × 56.9 cm (17.3 × 22.4 in)
Condition: Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Very good to excellent vintage condition. A clean and colorful example with the original folds from publication, as issued. Please examine the photographs carefully for the condition and folding lines.
Period: The Twentieth Century
Places: California, Nevada
Reference: BG-14364

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada as a bird's-eye view, a pictorial map painted by Gerald A. Eddy and published by the Lake Tahoe Sierra Association of Tahoe City, California, around 1945. It is a color lithograph, and the artist's credit appears in the lower right corner.

The lake lies at the center in a basin of ridges and peaks drawn in relief, with California labeled across the foreground and Nevada beyond the lake at the top, so that east lies at the head of the sheet. Roads loop around the shore and over the passes. Settlements, including Carson City, Genoa and Minden on the Nevada side and Reno and Truckee to the north and west, are lettered, along with lakes, ski areas, golf courses and resort points on the shoreline. A cloudy sky fills the horizon at the top.

A title panel at upper left reads "Lake Tahoe Sierra Association, Tahoe City, California" and lists the promotional claims "No Poison Oak, No Rattlesnakes, No Harmful Insects". The sheet was issued as a self-folding tourist map, and the reverse carries period tourism graphics, photographs, visitor information, a road map and a smaller map of the lake, along with the original pictorial cover.

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