A striking, apparently unrecorded map promoting the town of Gas City, Indiana during the Indiana Gas Boom, depicting it at the center of a spreading, circular pool of black oil. This eye-catching map shows Gas City—its name and location printed in red—amidst a vast region encompassing Indiana and portions of.....
A New Deal-era propaganda map celebrating the breadth of projects throughout the land commissioned by the Public Works Administration (PWA). This government-issued map is replete with a colorful smattering of several dozen vignettes—each indicating a specific PWA project—that span every state in the continental U.S. An additional forty-three projects, depicted.....
A large and lively pictorial map presenting the ethnic and religious diversity of America’s population, filled with illustrations of the inhabitants, products, etc. of the diverse regions of the United States, described by Stephen Hornsby as “one of the most striking maps of the era.” Between the late 1930s and.....
An entertaining pictorial map of the Monterey Peninsula replete with playful illustrations highlighting the area’s numerous tourist attractions. Created for the Southern California Automobile Club’s Westways Magazine, this map serves as a tourist guide to Monterey Peninsula, spanning from Lover’s Point and Punta de Los Pinos in the north to.....