1932 Pictorial map of Oklahoma and Arkansas
DESCRIPTION
Oklahoma and Arkansas are depicted together in this excerpted pictorial map from Berta and Elmer Hader's 1932 Picture Book of the States, joining Oklahoma's oil and land-rush country with Arkansas's Ouachita timber and resort country.
The sheet runs from Oklahoma City and the Wichita Mountains east across the Tri-State mining district, and across Arkansas from Fort Smith through the Ouachita ridges to Little Rock and the Mississippi Delta. Vignettes root the sheet in frontier and resort history alike, among them the April 1889 land rush, when settlers raced at noon to claim homesteads in the newly opened Unassigned Lands, and Hot Springs, already a celebrated resort destination in the Ouachita foothills. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Texas 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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