1932 Pictorial map of California
DESCRIPTION
California, 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 Death Valley to San Francisco Bay.
The sheet runs from the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys through San Francisco Bay north to the Sierra Nevada, and south through the Los Angeles basin to Death Valley and the Mojave Desert near the Arizona border. Vignettes capture the state's twin identities as wilderness frontier and entertainment capital, among them James D. Savage's 1851 entry into Yosemite Valley in the Sierra foothills and the orange groves and film studios that crowd Los Angeles. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Oregon and Washington 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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