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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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Europe in 1915 – German perspectives on the war through two sets of satirical propaganda maps

July 30, 2015January 25, 2017

Two pairs of German satirical propaganda maps of Europe published in Hamburg in 1915 Exactly one hundred years ago, at the end of July 1915, after the successes of the preceding Gorlice-Tarnow campaign and the recapture by Austrian forces of…

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Travels in Book Land: Alphons Woelfle’s imaginary map of 1938…

June 16, 2015January 25, 2017

May and June are traditionally the highpoint of the London bookselling calendar, so it seems fitting to draw attention to another of our recent acquisitions, one of the most charming imaginary maps of the late 1930’s, German artist Alphons Woelfle’s…

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1854: Clipping the Russian Bear’s Claws – “Rock & Droll” – The Comic Map of Europe is born…..

June 9, 2015March 30, 2017

Strolling around the London Map Fair at the Royal Geographical Society last weekend, I was delighted to have drawn to my attention a mid-19th Century Comic map of Europe which, to my great surprise, I had never seen nor encountered…

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