California Monuments and Sights.

N.p.: [San Francisco], [ca. 1930]. Apparently a mock-up for a proposed illustrated tour guide of California. No author or title known. Ninety large octavo leaves (9 x 7 inches), printed on glossy photographic paper. Each leaf with an actual photograph at the top and descriptive text below. The photographs are professional and the text is well written. Each leaf in a protective sleeve. Beautiful condition.A California guide, with blurbs about famous historical sights, monuments, natural wonders, and famous homes in Northern and Southern California. Including Cinder Cone and Butte Lake, Rainbow Falls of Madera County, downtown San Francisco, Pasadena Rose Bowl, Angeles Abbey Mausoleum, Modjeska's Forest of Arden, the first homeland of Leland Stanford statesman and philanthropist, A City in a Circle (Riverside County), the Ramona Pageant in Riverside County, the grave of Ramona, Huntington Botanical Gardens in Los Angeles, a few pages with images of farming melons and lettuce in the Imperial Valley, Butano Falls, Prayer Book Cross at Golden Gate Park, a busy water-front scene on Sacramento River, and much more. Captivating images and views of California's great sights accompany a concise and interesting paragraph on that sight.