1932 Pictorial map of North Carolina and South Carolina
DESCRIPTION
North Carolina and South Carolina are depicted together in this excerpted pictorial map from Berta and Elmer Hader's 1932 Picture Book of the States, joining North Carolina's mountain and tobacco country with South Carolina's Sea Island coast.
The sheet runs from North Carolina's Outer Banks through the Piedmont tobacco belt to the Blue Ridge highlands around Asheville, and across South Carolina's Sea Islands and Columbia to the textile district of the northwest. Vignettes throughout mark the region's colonial and agricultural history, among them the French landing near Port Royal in 1562 and cotton scenes along the inland plain that include racial caricatures of African-Americans among the field workers. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Georgia and Alabama 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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