1932 Pictorial map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey
DESCRIPTION
Pennsylvania and New Jersey are depicted together in this excerpted pictorial map from Berta and Elmer Hader's 1932 Picture Book of the States, joining Pennsylvania's industrial interior with New Jersey's garden-state coast.
The sheet runs from Pittsburgh's coalfields and steel country in Pennsylvania's west through the Appalachian ridges to Philadelphia on the Delaware, and across New Jersey's industrial Hudson shore south through its dairy and pinelands interior to the Jersey shore. Vignettes recall the region's deep colonial contest, among them William Penn's 1682 landing at Philadelphia and Étienne Brûlé's 1615 passage through the Allegheny country. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia 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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