1932 Pictorial map of Massachusetts
DESCRIPTION
Massachusetts, 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 Berkshires to Cape Cod.
The sheet runs from Mt. Greylock and the Berkshire hills in the west through the mill cities of the Merrimack valley and Boston at the center to the Pilgrim landing at Plymouth and Cape Cod in the east. Vignettes trace the state's outsized role in American history, among them the Mayflower's 1620 landing at Plymouth and Quincy, marked as the birthplace of both John Adams and John Quincy Adams, the only father-and-son presidents in American history. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Connecticut and Rhode Island 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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