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US Comic Maps & the Prohibition Era, 1920-1933 – Part 2: Edward Gerstell McCandlish’s “Bootlegger’s Map of the United States”

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US Comic Maps & the Prohibition Era, 1920-1933 – Part 2: Edward Gerstell McCandlish’s “Bootlegger’s Map of the United States”

October 5, 2015August 17, 2017

West Virginian-born toy maker, children’s author and cartoonist, Edward Gerstell McCandlish [1887-1946] produced one of the best-known and most widely circulated comic maps of the Prohibition era, the so-called Bootlegger’s Map of the United States. The map actually appeared in…

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US Comic Maps & the Prohibition era, 1920-1933 – Part 1: Isle of Pleasure

October 2, 2015March 14, 2018

Henry J Lawrence’s Map of the Isle of Pleasure [1931] As noted on the introductory flyleaf of Edward Behr’s splendid 1997 study, Prohibition – The Thirteen Years that changed America: On 16th January 1920, at the stroke of midnight, America…

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