1932 Pictorial map of Connecticut and Rhode Island
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Connecticut and Rhode Island, the smallest pairing in Berta and Elmer Hader's 1932 Picture Book of the States, are depicted together in this excerpted pictorial map, joining Connecticut's colonial river valley with Rhode Island's deep Narragansett Bay coastline.
The sheet runs from Connecticut's Litchfield Hills and Hartford's tobacco-filled river valley east to the Long Island Sound shore cities of New Haven and New London, and across Narragansett Bay, which cuts deep enough into Rhode Island that Providence sits near its head with Newport at the bay's southern mouth. Vignettes throughout draw on the region's colonial history, among them Roger Williams founding Providence in 1636 as a refuge for religious liberty and the 1676 death of the Wampanoag sachem King Philip marked in the interior. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's New York 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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