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[Relief map of fictional mountain setting for George Rippey Stewart's book titled Fire].
BANC PIC 2018.101--CASE
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Title:

[Relief map of fictional mountain setting for George Rippey Stewart's book titled Fire]

Creator/Contributor:

Stewart, George R., 1895-1980, creator, creator.

Creator/Contributor:

Park, David, 1911-1960, colorist.

Abstract:

Plaster of paris topographical map of the fictional Ponderosa Forest region, located between the actual Tahoe Forest and Plumas Forest in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Date:

1947 (issued)

Subject:

Stewart, George R -- 1895-1980

Note:

Title devised by cataloger.
Created by the son of author George Rippey Stewart. Painted by artist David Park.
Map mentioned in Stewart's 1972 oral history "A Little of myself", pages 164-165.
Forms part of the Historical Objects Miscellany of The Bancroft Library.
RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Gift of George Rippey Stewart; after 1972. CU-BANC
Transferred from the George Rippey Stewart papers (BANC MSS C-H 13, box 7). CU-BANC

Type:

realia
Relief models.
Topographic maps.

Physical Description:

1 item : hand colored plaster of paris map ; 16 x 16 x 3 cm

Language:

English

Identifier:

BANC PIC 2018.101--CASE

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC

Related Item:

George Rippey Stewart papers : Stewart, George R., : 1895-1980