| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 8020 |  | Details | White Mountain Graphics | 1981 |
| Illustrated Pictorial Map of Martha’s Vineyard |
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White Mountain Graphics |
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| 1981 |
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| $300.00 | White-Mountain-Graphics | Illustrated-Pictorial-Map-of-Martha’s-Vineyard | A colorful illustrated poster map of Martha's Vineyard drawn by K. Rinaldo and published in 1981 by White Mountain Graphics. The poster is filled with hundreds of hand-drawn vignettes capturing island towns, harbors, beaches, landmarks, and summer pastimes. The artist uses a cartoonlike style to show ferries approaching Vineyard Haven, sailboats in Katama Bay, lighthouses, beaches, farms, and well-known establishments across Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, and Chilmark. Inset scenes, handwritten labels, humorous details, and decorative border elements give the sheet the character of a personal visual tour rather than a formal cartographic product.
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The map functions as a record of Vineyard culture, highlighting cottages, inns, restaurants, bicycle routes, fishing spots, and community traditions that defined the island during the period. Its composition rewards close viewing, with dozens of local references rendered in a bright palette intended to evoke the island's summer energy. A striking pictorial map for collectors of Vineyard ephemera and American resort-town cartography.
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White Mountain Graphics was a small New Hampshire-based illustration and design studio active primarily in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Operating out of Jackson, New Hampshire, the firm produced a range of commercially printed posters, pictorial maps, and souvenir-oriented visual materials, often in a hand-drawn style similar to the Martha's Vineyard map.
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