1958 Ride the Roads to Romance... Southern CaliforniaRide the Roads to Romance along the Golden Coast and thru the Sunshine Empire of Southern California By: Roads To Romance Inc. Drawn By: Claud G. Putnam Date: 1958 (Dated) San Bernadino Original Size: 21. 25 x 34 inches (54 cm x 86. 4 cm) This is a reproduction of a vintage pictorial road map of Southern California drawn by Claud G. Putnam for Roads to Romance Inc. The Roads to Romance series ran from the 1940's to the 1960's of which this example was

The original lithograph was produced in 1912 to promote the 1915 World’s Fair of San Francisco

It shows the ancient geography and place names of much of Anatolia

including such names as Caesar

He outraged a kirk minister by claiming it would be unlawful to resist the Spanish by force of arms

and industry

The map published in Amsterdam circa 1636

This decorative example of Abraham Ortelius’ map of Russia covers an area from the North Sea and the Gulf of Finland

He has been called the "Renaissance Man of the West"

Size of Original: 38

Visscher's map is highly sought after among maps of this region

The islands of the Indies Archipelago are named and all larger ones have bright figures describing an important feature of their history or industry

delineating the “long haul lines