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Description
Colored and pictorial map of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The routes of 30 explorers are marked, with illustrations and explanations of their discoveries lining three of the map's borders. The map was created as a supplement to Touring Topics, a monthly periodical published by the Automobile Club of Southern California to promote automobile tourism around the southwestern United States.
Animals Cartography Indians of North America Maps North America North America - Description and travel North America - Maps Pictorial maps Sea monsters Tourism Travel Voyages and travels Voyages to the Pacific coast Cartouche Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez, active 16th century Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 1510-1554 Alarcón, Hernando de, 1466-1540 Cabrillo, Juan Rodríguez, -1543 Ferrer, Bartolomé Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596 Espejo, Antonio de Oñate, Juan de, 1549?-1624 Vizcaíno, Sebastián, 1550?-1628? Domínguez de Mendoza, Juan, 1627-1693 Kino, Eusebio Francisco, 1644-1711 Valverde y Cossío, Antonio, 1680-1728 Portolà Expedition (1769-1770) Pérez Hernández, Juan José, approximately 1725-1775 Anza, Juan Bautista de, 1735-1788 Ayala, Juan Manuel de, 1745-1797 Garcés, Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo, 1738-1781 Domínguez, Francisco Atanasio, active 1776 Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre, -1792 Domínguez-Escalante Expedition (1776) La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788 Tourism - United States
Place
United States Mexico
Source
Original map, 108 x 71 cm: Honnold/Mudd Library map collection, folder 4:2, Maps-North America
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