This playful "cartograph" was issued in White's Our U.S.A. - A Gay Geography. It is filled with cartoonish imagery representing the state's recreation, industry, and natural splendor, including mountains, granite quarries, fishing scenes, the Cornish Art Colony, a track star at Dartmouth, and a couple of riders ascending Jacob's Ladder. The map is further decorated by a banner-style cartouche and a compass rose that incorporates the Great Stone Face.

Ruth Taylor White's charming pictorial maps are among the most popular collectible maps of the early 20th century. Shortly after the publication of the first edition of Our U.S.A. - A Gay Geography in 1935, the New York Times reviewed it as follows: "Any one who remembers his childhood efforts to visualize Kentucky as something more than the green spot on the map, or New York as the pink State, will appreciate this volume. Brilliantly colored pictorial maps of the same order which have been amusing adults for the past decade show the United States and their Territories as active, picturesque entities" (November 17th, 1935).

References: Rumsey #7823.068.

Condition: A

Clean and colorful with a hint of toning and binding holes along the sheet's top edge.