1932 Pictorial map of Georgia and Alabama
DESCRIPTION
Georgia and Alabama are depicted together in this excerpted pictorial map from Berta and Elmer Hader's 1932 Picture Book of the States, joining Georgia's Piedmont and Sea Island coast with Alabama's mineral district and river bottomlands.
The sheet runs from Atlanta and Savannah in Georgia's Piedmont and coastal plain west across Alabama's Tennessee River valley and Birmingham's iron and steel district to Mobile Bay on the Gulf. Vignettes fill the agricultural and historical interior, among them De Soto's 1541 confrontation with the Choctaw chief of the same name at Tuscaloosa and cotton and pecan harvest scenes that include racial caricatures of African-Americans throughout. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Florida 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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