Clason Map Co. Clason’s Colorado Green Guide. Published by The Clason Map Co., Chicago, Denver, 1921. Folding map in Clason’s Colorado Green Guide (map attached in booklet). Map: 18 ½ x 24 in. Both map and booklet in very good condition. Booklet includes 40 pp. text with place name index, lists of roads and railroads, descriptive information about the state, small uncolored maps of downtown Denver, Pueblo and Colorado Springs business districts. Colorado map is brightly colored, with roads, railroads, reservations, national forests and oil resources highlighted.
$375.00
Clason’s pocket guide, which had been colored green since 1908, was formally referred to as the Green Guide for the first time in 1920. In 1921 the guide was officially titled Clason’s (state name) Green Guide. The Native American woman remained on the cover, although her dress changed, and the price increased to 35 cents. Between 1921 and 1929, the dating of these guides becomes more of a challenge because copyright dates and other dating clues vanished in 1920. The 1921 edition, however, showed “New Census edition” across the top of the cover, reflecting the final state population data from the 1920 census. Also, as shown at the bottom of the cover, Chicago joined Denver as one of the publishing locations of the Clason Co. The back cover of the guide contained an advertisement claiming that the “Green Guides are published of every state.”
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