1932 Pictorial map of Florida
DESCRIPTION
Florida, 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 crowded with citrus groves, cruise liners, and pirate ships.
The sheet runs the length of the peninsula from Pensacola and Jacksonville in the north through the citrus-filled interior around Lake Okeechobee to Miami and the Keys in the south. Vignettes crowd the peninsula's waters and groves alike, among them a seaplane passing above sailboats and a pirate vessel in the Gulf, a reminder that Florida's waters drew buccaneers long before cruise lines, and citrus scenes that include racial caricatures of African-Americans among the orange pickers. The reverse carries a corresponding fact sheet for the book's Mississippi and Louisiana 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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