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A delightful Depression-era board game in the form of a treasure hunt map promoting the Little Orphan Annie radio show and the flavored milk supplement Ovaltine. This fantasy map depicts nine islands, various lands and rocks, vessels, hazards, and a multi-colored course snaking across the map. The players (between one.....
An unrecorded real estate promotion map for the town of Sedalia, Missouri and vicinity, located at the junction of the Missouri Pacific R.R. and the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway, and situated roughly half way between St. Louis and Kansas City. This attractive map depicts Sedalia highlighted in several colors.....
An unusually beautiful pictorial advertising map, by a leading French poster designer specializing in cartographic images. This vivid pictorial world map represents numerous flight routes from France to North America, South America, Europe, Africa, South East Asia, the Middle East, and even Iceland. Imaginative illustrations are distributed across land and.....
An unrecorded and colorful broadsheet promoting the Burlington Route of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and associated western destinations. Exhorting viewers to read the text “carefully, especially if you contemplate a trip to any point west, northwest or southwest,” this broadside provides information on route options for those traveling.....
An appealing promotional brochure for Yosemite National Park, including three colorful maps. This is one of two known issues of this scarce publication. Functioning as a “entrance” to the brochure, the cover panel shows a wagon passing through the “Gateway to Yosemite” at the base of the 28-foot-wide “Grizzly Giant”.....
A promotional pamphlet with a large folding map of lands boasting “the finest body of iron ore in Virginia,” and proposing a railroad through timber-rich and arable territory. The map depicts and advertises the lands of the Douthat Survey, lying between the Allegheny Mountains and the Cowpasture River in western.....
Second edition of this map first published in 1887 by the Southern Pacific Railroad, showing by use of color California’s different climatic zones, and evidently intended to promote both travel and settlement in the region. The map extends from Mexico in the south to Oregon in the north, and from.....
A scarce and elaborate plat map for a seaside resort development at Pigeon Cove in Rockport, Mass. Located on the eastern extremity of Cape Ann, Pigeon Cove began attracting vacationers from the Boston area during the 1840s. Once the train reached the area in 1862, summer boarding homes soon gave.....
One of the most impressive Maine real estate promotion maps published in the nineteenth century, showing the proposed development of Petit Manan, just to the east of Bar Harbor, in Washington County. This large and captivating plan shows Petit Manan Point in its entirety, featuring a plat on its western.....
An unrecorded promotional broadsheet for the sale by auction of residential lots in Grove Park in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a plat map and illustrations of “the type of construction encountered on the way to the property” and advertising a “whites only” raffle, likely with the intent of discouraging Black.....
A map of Berkshire County, Massachusetts made for the Berkshire Life Insurance Company (est. 1851) of Pittsfield, Mass., intended to promote tourism in the area. Civil engineer Walter Watson first created this map in 1883. This second edition of 1896 differs from the earlier edition in that it is accompanied.....