Alva Traver 'Ted' Hubbard (1899 - 1989) was a businessman, journalist, newspaper and journal editor, and illustrator active in the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in Michigan, Hubbard moved to California (Huntington Park, near Los Angeles) in his youth and attended the University of California at Berkeley. After serving in World War I, he held several prominent positions, including as the Secretary of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce (his later illustrations were often done in conjunction with local chambers of commerce). He increasingly worked as an editor and illustrator, depicting various sites around the San Francisco Bay Area in a distinctive, realistic bird's eye view style. In the 1960s, Hubbard relocated to the Sacramento Valley, where he went on to edit several newspapers.