1932 Pictorial map of Michigan
DESCRIPTION
Michigan, one of only eight states given its own dedicated page in Berta and Elmer Hader's 1932 Picture Book of the States, is depicted in this excerpted pictorial map spanning both of its peninsulas.
The sheet spans the Lower Peninsula's Great Lakes shoreline from Detroit to Traverse City and Grand Rapids, and the Upper Peninsula's Lake Superior coast and Keweenaw copper country beyond the Straits of Mackinac. Vignettes throughout mark the state's industrial identity, among them Detroit's automobile industry, already one of the largest manufacturing centers in the world by 1932, and the copper and iron deposits of the Upper Peninsula, mined since the 1840s. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Minnesota and Wisconsin 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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