1932 Pictorial map of Texas
DESCRIPTION
Texas, 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 the Panhandle to the Rio Grande.
The sheet organizes Texas around its Panhandle, Trans-Pecos desert, central corridor of Fort Worth through San Antonio, and Gulf Coast from the Sabine to Brownsville. Vignettes compress four centuries of colonial history onto this single leaf, among them Coronado's 1540 entrada, La Salle's 1685 landing, De Vaca's 1528 shipwreck survivors, and Sam Houston commemorated in the south. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Kansas and Nebraska 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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