This bird’s-eye view map, titled “Map of Los Angeles and Suburbs,” was produced in 1906 by Lawson, H. R. and the Riley-Moore Co., based in Los Angeles. Published by A. Humitsch, the map was issued as a first edition during a period of significant growth for the city. Functioning as both a promotional and practical artifact, this map was distributed as a souvenir and commercial guide, particularly for the Holmes Book Co., one of California's most prominent antiquarian booksellers in the early twentieth century.
The map provides a panoramic vista of Los Angeles and its rapidly expanding suburban area in the years before World War I. It is organized with an elevated, oblique view that looks northeast across the Los Angeles basin toward a mountainous horizon. The dense city grid is depicted radiating outward from the urban center, with principal streets and car lines distinctly marked. The map’s borders are populated by an extensive alphanumeric index, referencing hundreds of individual locations, and the right margin includes a column of red-printed annotations that further clarify key sites and features.
This is a reproduction print of a historical map
