1932 Pictorial map of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia
DESCRIPTION
Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia are depicted together in this excerpted pictorial map from Berta and Elmer Hader's 1932 Picture Book of the States — the only leaf in the atlas to include the nation's capital.
The sheet runs from Maryland's Allegheny ridges and Blue Ridge east to the tidal Chesapeake Bay, and across the Delmarva Peninsula to Delaware's Dover and Salisbury near the Atlantic coast. Washington is placed at the bend of the Potomac where Maryland and Virginia converge, and vignettes throughout depict the Tidewater's tobacco and seafood economy, among them scenes that include racial caricatures of African-Americans alongside the workers of the lowland interior. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Ohio and West Virginia 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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