1932 Pictorial map of North Dakota and South Dakota
DESCRIPTION
North Dakota and South Dakota are depicted together in this excerpted pictorial map from Berta and Elmer Hader's 1932 Picture Book of the States, spanning the Red River wheat country to the Black Hills.
The sheet runs from North Dakota's Bismarck and Red River valley west to the Badlands, and across South Dakota from Pierre on the Missouri to the Black Hills gold fields near the Wyoming border. Vignettes throughout mark the sheet's history and geography, among them Mount Rushmore's faces, still under active carving at the time of the book's publication, anchoring South Dakota's southwest, and scenes across North Dakota's reservation-marked interior that include racial caricatures of Indigenous peoples. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Idaho and Montana 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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