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Decorative, playful map of the Caribbean Islands by Ruth Taylor White. Coverage includes south Florida, Cuba, the Bahamas, the Windward and Leeward Islands, Central America, and portions of Colombia and Venezuela. The Caribbean Islands are shown in a cartoon-like style complete with palm trees, flamingos, cruise ships and numerous stylized native inhabitants in local costumes. At the Panama Canal Zone a United States soldier stands guard with gun at shoulder. Page 85.
Ruth Taylor White (1896 - 1985)
Ruth Taylor White was among the most prolific makers of pictographic maps or cartographs during the classic period of pictorial map making in the United States, the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's. Taylor White’s ‘cartographs’ (as she called them) were characterized by bobble-headed cartoon characters across colorful, attractive landscapes. Despite their visual richness and vigor, White's cartographs resort to stereotyping with regard to culture, ethnicity, gender and class and their points of contrast to 21st century culture is a reminder. That said, White's pictorial maps combine graphic style, color and comical observation and are drawn in the same style of Jo Mora's works of the same period
PUBLICATION DATE: 1935
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: N/A
BODY OF WATER: Caribbean Sea
CONDITION: Very Good.
Clean with a tiny hint of age toning.
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SIZE: 11
" x
9 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 88
PRICE: $
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