Picturing America
Subtitle: the golden age of pictorial maps
By: Stephen J. Hornsby
Contributors: Library of Congress. Geography and Map Division
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780226386041
Subjects: Maps; Pictorial maps; Cartography; History
Other titles: Golden age of pictorial maps
Description: In the United States, the art form flourished during the 1920s to the 1970s, when thousands of innovative maps were mass-produced for use as advertisements and decorative objects the golden age of American pictorial maps. Picturing America is the first book to showcase this vivid and popular genre of maps. Geographer and collector Stephen J. Hornsby gathers together 158 delightful pictorial jewels, most drawn from the extensive collections of the Library of Congress. In his informative introduction, Hornsby outlines the development of the cartographic form, identifies several representative artists, describes the process of creating a pictorial map, and considers the significance of the form in the history of Western cartography. Organized into six thematic sections, Picturing America covers a vast swath of the pictorial map tradition during its golden age, ranging from "Maps to Amuse" to "Maps for War."
Notes: Maps illustrated are drawn primarily from the Fair and Parry collections at the Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pictorial maps: an American genre; title: Maps to amuse; title: Maps to instruct; title: Maps of place and region; title: Maps for industry; title: Maps for war; title: Maps for postwar America.