1932 Pictorial map of Tennessee and Kentucky
DESCRIPTION
Tennessee and Kentucky are depicted together in this excerpted pictorial map from Berta and Elmer Hader's 1932 Picture Book of the States, spanning the border South from the Mississippi to the Appalachians.
The sheet runs from Kentucky's bluegrass and Mammoth Cave country east to the Cumberland Mountains, and across Tennessee's Tennessee River valley south toward the Georgia border. Vignettes throughout the sheet mark points of American history and agricultural life, among them Lincoln's birthplace at Hodgenville and Tennessee's cotton scenes, crowded with racial caricatures of African-Americans throughout. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Illinois and Indiana 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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