1932 Pictorial map of Nevada and Utah
DESCRIPTION
Nevada and Utah are depicted together in this excerpted pictorial map from Berta and Elmer Hader's 1932 Picture Book of the States, joining Nevada's Great Basin mining country with Utah's Great Salt Lake and Mormon settlement history.
The sheet runs from Reno and Carson City across Nevada's Great Basin to the silver districts of Tonopah and Goldfield, and across Utah from the Great Salt Lake through the Wasatch front to the Colorado and Wyoming borders. Vignettes tie the sheet to two of the era's defining moments of westward settlement, among them the golden spike marking the 1869 completion of the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Summit and Brigham Young's 1847 arrival in the Salt Lake valley. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's California 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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