The front cover of this book looks identical to the one presented here a few days ago. Inside, however, there are some significant differences.

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First, while the previous California book included just photos with no title page, forward, or map, this one includes all three. The title page says this book, like yesterday’s Sunset book, sold for a dollar. The forward is two paragraphs encouraging people to show the book to friends to “give them an interesting account of your travels” and “perhaps to persuade others” to visit California themselves.

While these may seem trivial differences, a more substantial difference is in the photographs. The previous California book contained 74 photos. The title page of this one says it has just 64. However, that’s an error: it really only includes 61 photos, or 18 percent fewer than the previous one.

Naturally, most of the photos in this book were also in the previous one. I haven’t gone photo by photo to see if there are any in this that were not in the other one, but one thing that is noticeable is that even the photos that are in both books are not in the same order.

In any case, it is clear that these books evolved over time. I suspect the first ones had just photos, then the map was added, then a title page, and finally a forward. Since there are few dates in the books, I can only guess, but if this one came out after yesterday’s (which didn’t have a forward), and yesterday’s came out after the one the day before (which didn’t have a title page), then I would date this one to 1930.