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16 pp. Illustrated with 8 photographs. 7¼x4½", original illustrated wrappers.

When this booklet was issued by the land development company of the 3 Banning brothers, Catalina was still far from the resort they had envisioned when they began buying up land on the island 13 years earlier, though it was already frequented by adventurous sportsmen rather than the sheep shearers, cattle herders and Chinese and Japanese fishermen who had long been its only visitors. And while provisions for preserving the natural beauty of the island – instituted when the Bannings sold out to chewing gum czar William Wrigley – were still another 14 years in the future, the photos in this booklet – of a single hotel and proud anglers with their catch of a nine-foot long swordfish and a 336-pound Black Sea Bass – show that the Island was as yet largely untouched by human blight. Rare. WorldCat shows holdings only at UCLA and Yale.