1932 Pictorial map of Maine
DESCRIPTION
Maine, 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 Aroostook County to the resort coast.
The sheet runs from Aroostook County's potato fields in the north through the paper mill country of the Penobscot and Kennebec valleys to the resort beaches of the southern shore. Vignettes mark the state's agricultural and frontier life, among them overflowing potato barrels in Aroostook County's harvest and trapper and hunter scenes near the Quebec border in the western highlands that include racial caricatures of Indigenous peoples. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Vermont and New Hampshire 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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