The original map, created by Walt Disney and Herb Ryman, was used to secure the initial funding for Disneyland in 1953. The auction featured nearly 1,000 other iconic, exceptional Disney artifacts.

Art dealer Mike Van Eaton stands next to a hand-drawn map from 1953 that shows Walt Disney's original ideas for Disneyland displayed at the Van Eaton Galleries in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.

Disney has just released the first map of Piston Peak National Park in Magic Kingdom, showing off its new Cars-themed land.

The map has never been offered at an auction ... The 800-item auction featuring other original Disneyland props, costumes, souvenirs, and artifacts will take place June 2017, with an exhibition ...

Update: Walt Disney's original hand-drawn park map of Disneyland was sold on June 25, 2017 for $708,000. Though the auctioned price fell just below the predicted window of $750,000 to $1 million ...

The map was hand-drawn by Walt Disney and a friend named Herb Ryman in 1953 to try to secure funding to build the park. Though dozens of Disneyland attractions that were in the original park have ...

A rare Disneyland map, co-created in 1953 by Walt Disney in order to secure necessary financing and personally used by him to develop Disneyland, has been re-discovered and will be auctioned at ...

The Happiest Place On Earth' by Don Hahn and Christopher Merritt traces the development of Disneyland, starting in the early ’50s.

The original map that Walt Disney made of Disneyland for his brother, Roy, to persuade ABC to invest in the theme park has been auctioned off for $700,000. An anonymous buyer from the West Coast ...

The map has never been offered at an auction ... The 800-item auction featuring other original Disneyland props, costumes, souvenirs, and artifacts will take place June 2017, with an exhibition ...