[Santa Barbara Real Estate Atlas] Real Estate Atlas of Santa Barbara County, California: Aerial / Map Volume. Seventeenth Edition

Aerial Photography and Parcel atlas of Santa Barbara County.A massive real estate atlas pairing aerial orthophotography with corresponding parcel maps throughout Santa Barbara County. Published by Real Estate Data, Inc. Elephant folio. Publisher's original black vinyl screw-post binding. Dual aerial photo and matching map spreads numbered: [publisher's ad sheet with map of the United States], A - D;156 (of 160) double pages. Lacks 4 aerial/map images: nos.: 113, 119, 132, and 155. Slight musty oder. Light edge wear, marginal creasing, and minor curling to page extremities; binding remains sound. Aerial Photography and Parcel atlas of Santa Barbara County.A massive real estate atlas pairing aerial orthophotography with corresponding parcel maps throughout Santa Barbara County. Published by Real Estate Data, Inc. (REDI) in 1980, the atlas juxtaposes detailed line maps showing street grids, lot divisions, parcel boundaries, and zoning designations with highly detailed aerial photographic views. Among the features visible are U.S. Route 101, Las Positas Road, the Santa Barbara coastline, and the suburban development spreading inland from the city.The high edition number (the present example is styled a "seventeenth edition") reflects the essentially continuous revision of atlases of this type. Its large-format screw-post binding was practical, allowing sheets to be removed and replaced individually as parcels were subdivided, roads altered, zoning changed, or new aerial photography became available, without requiring replacement of the entire volume. The present atlas preserves evidence of this process: individual sheets bear varying printed dates from circa 1971 1977, while most aerial photograph sheets are date-stamped February 1980, demonstrating how successive generations of mapping and imagery could coexist within a single working atlas. Characteristically, given the nature of such an atlas with easily removable pages, the present example is missing four aerial view/map pairs (numbered 113, 119, 132, and 158).Such volumes were practical reference tools for county assessors, title companies, real-estate offices, and planners during Southern California s rapid postwar development. Surviving REDI atlases now provide unusually detailed evidence for reconstructing changing property boundaries, land use, transportation corridors, and suburban growth over time.…