Lovely Ojai: O-Hi "The Nest": Map of Roads and Trails C. G. Putnam Californiana

Large sheet (19" x 25"), folded 9 3/4" x 4 1/4"). One side shows pictorial birds-eye map "The Ojai and Beautiful Adjacent Country"; the other side details sighs to see and things to do in and around Ojai. Printed on heavy paper. Light, general wear; scraping alon upper front edge (see image) else a near fine copy of a scarce map. Only two copies located in online institutions. Claude George Putnam (1884 - 1955) was an illustrator who lived in Glendale and worked in Los Angeles. His work ranged from advertisements, cartography, book plates and more. Putnam was the founder and first president of the Advertising Art Association of Southern California. He was also a longtime member and officer of the Newport Harbor Yacht Club, which is how he came to create a promotional map for the Newport Harbor Chamber of Commerce. Putnam did a similarly detailed map for the developers of Beverly Hills in 1912 and later created various maps of California history and the Old West. While his maps were mostly in bright colors, this map of Ojai is in green, pale green, black an white. The map shows a shaded-relief bird s-eye from the Pacific with Ventura in the foreground, the village of Ojai in the center and the surrounding mountainous area.