1932 Pictorial map of Vermont and New Hampshire
DESCRIPTION
Vermont and New Hampshire are depicted together in this excerpted pictorial map from Berta and Elmer Hader's 1932 Picture Book of the States, pairing New England's two most mountainous states on a single sheet.
The sheet runs from Vermont's granite and marble country in the Green Mountains west to Lake Champlain, and from New Hampshire's White Mountains east to the brief Atlantic coastline at Portsmouth, with Montpelier and Concord marking each state's capital near the map's center. Vignettes crowd this geography with figures and scenes tied to each state's own history, among them Samuel Peters christening the Green Mountains "Vert Mont" in 1763, the Old Man of the Mountain looking out from Franconia Notch, and Concord's stagecoaches recalling the routes that once carried settlers and mail west. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Massachusetts entry, a consequence of the book's binding structure, in which each state's descriptive text appears on the verso of the preceding map leaf.
Berta Hoerner Hader (1890–1976) and Elmer Stanley Hader (1889–1973) were a husband-and-wife illustration team among the most celebrated collaborators in American children's publishing, having won the Caldecott Medal, the highest honor in American children's book illustration, along with two additional Caldecott Honors. Picture Book of the States, their 1932 collaboration with Harper & Brothers, covers forty-eight states and the District of Columbia across twenty-eight illustrated leaves, each paired on its facing page with keyed descriptive text so that map and text could be cross-referenced at a glance. The result renders the American landscape, its industries, natural resources, and notable personalities, in the Haders' characteristic whimsical style, informative and warm at once.
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