LEJEUNE C.SS.R.Livre Rare Book
S.S. City of Los Angeles. . . a direct de luxe service over the Southern route Los Angeles - Honolulu. . . deck plans.
1928rif. 59682San Francisco Los Angeles CA: Los Angeles Steamship Co. Matson Navigation Co. ca. 1928. Oblong elephant folio. 37.25 x 23 in. deck plans printed on recto w/ illustration of SS City of Los Angeles in profile at upper left corner deck plans & descriptive text to right corner faint age toning minor wear a couple minor closed tears at fold creases still VG copy from the library of Archibald Angus MacDonald 1892-1977 stepson of famed southern California oil man William F. Byrne as well as oil company and drilling equipment owner and manager of MacDonald & Burns Oil Producers. First edition of this exceedingly scarce original deck plan for the S.S. City of Los Angeles which featured here a Boat Deck and A - D Decks with cabins staterooms and facilities all clearly demarcated. The S.S. City of Los Angeles was originally launched in 1899 as the SS Grosser Kurfurst for North German Lloyd and after being seized during World War I as a transport was renamed the USS Aeolus and then entirely refurbished for the Los Angeles Steamship Co. in 1922 as a very popular luxury liner until sold for scrap in 1937. No copies in Worldcat. Los Angeles Steamship Co., [Matson Navigation Co.], unknown
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