This is a vintage folio of 16 original hand-tinted photographs produced by National Color Press in 1945. The photographs feature Southern Pacific trains, architecture, and landscapes of Los Angeles and Hollywood. The folio is unframed and printed on paper measuring 8 x 10 inches. The production technique used is hand-colored and the photographs are from the time period of 1925-1949.

VINTAGE LOS ANGELES AND HOLLYWOOD FOLIO.  Dated 1945 from The National Color Press, San Francisco.  16 (full set) contains hand colored views of points of interest in LA and Hollywood.  Reached by Southern Pacific Lines.  In it's original folio and brown envelope it was received in.  Envelope is unaddressed and unposted but shows 6 cent postage cost in 1945.  Research shows there were different folio versions so we are listing all included pictures.
We only show a selection of the pictures but all 16 are included and feature:
  • Roosevelt Highway and Pacific Ocean North of Santa Monica
  • Mission San Gabriel Archangel in Operation Since 1771
  • Griffith Observatory.  One of the World's great Planetariums.  Hollywood CA
  • Olivera Street,  A little bit of Old Mexico in the heart of LA
  • World famous Hollywood Boulevard.  Tall buildings in background Hollywood and Vine
  • Venice Oil Fields.  Located at Oceans Edge.
  • West Seventh Street.  Part of Downtown LA Business District.
  • Los Angeles' City Hall Surrounded by other buildings of the city's Civic Center.
  • Echo Park is like a tropical garden.  Los Angeles, CA
  • Sunken Gardens in Exposition Park, LA
  • Heavily laden Orange trees and Lofty Snow Covered Mountains, LA County
  • Hollywood Bowl, Famous for "Symphonies under the Stars"
  • World's Largest Motion Picture Studio, Hollywood CA (Warner Bros in 1945)
  • Union Station, LA.  Architecture reminiscent of the early Spanish Missions.
  • Douglas Macarthur Park and Famed Wilshire Boulevard, LA
  • International Six Meter Sloops off history Point Irmin, LA

Envelope no longer has top flap and is torn in places.  Folio inside is in excellent condition as are each of the 16 pictures.  These are hand colored photographs.  See pictures of actual item being sold.  We do not use stock photos.