Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Ruth Taylor White Ruth D. Taylor White was an American pictorial mapmaker, what they liked to call 'carto-graphy'. One of her first published works was a cover of The Stanford Illustrated Review, where her brother Frank attended university. Frank was an accomplished journalist and writer, and Ruth provided the illustrations for two of his books Oh Ranger! A Book About the National Parks and Grand Canyon Country. In the spring of 1930, White traveled to Hawaii, where she received a commission from the Hawaii Tourist Bureau to create pictorial maps of the Hawaiian Islands. White’s most famous work, a pictorial atlas entitled, Our USA: A Gay Geography was published in 1935 and was filled with ‘cartography’ of each state. Adapted from - Geographicus https://www.geographicus.com/P/ctgy&Category_Code=whiteruthtaylor
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Ruth Taylor White Taylor, F. and Taylor,R. (1935). Our U.S.A a gay geography. Little Brown and Company, Boston. Our Gay Geography was marketed and designed for children as an entertaining and fanciful pictorial illustrated atlas of the United States, which includes a full color map and a page of historical and geographical text for each of the 48 states plus the Territories of Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Philippines, as well as a map of the Caribbean showing Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Panama Canal Zone as well as the rest of the Antilles (56 maps in total). Numerous small cartoons on the map of each state depict historically significant sites, peoples, activities, crops, animals, populated places, etc. A product of the 1930s, the atlas is rife with stereotypical and often racist caricatures of an individual state's inhabitants, particularly in the South and in the West. In addition to these insensitive depictions of peoples, the atlas also reflects the era in which it was produced in terms of stereotypical gender roles as well as in its portrayals of what was important or noteworthy about states and regions in terms of present-day agricultural and industrial products and social activities. To this end, the atlas consistently presents a whitewashed narrative of local and national history. The cartography and illustrations were done by Ruth Taylor White (1896-1985) who was educated at Stanford, where she majored in English, and at the New York Institute of Art and Design. Throughout her career she referred to her maps as "cartographs." Her brother Frank Taylor, a journalist, authored the text of the atlas. Adapted from the Osher Map Library https://tinyurl.com/3xyexwsz
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Ruth Taylor White A large selection of pictorial maps or cartographs by Ruth Taylor White can be found on the David Rumsey Map Collection: https://tinyurl.com/36nts37c
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display) Ruth Taylor White An aerial panorama view of the exposition grounds, with a portion of San Francisco in the foreground and whimsical sea monsters, whales, planes, and boats in the water around the Treasure Island. Includes legend to exposition buildings, with some items marked. A cartograph of Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay : Golden Gate International Exposition : Cartograph by Ruth Tylor. (on verso) Exposition buildings and courts. (to accompany) Official Guide Book : Revised edition. Golden Gate International Exposition : World's Fair on San Francisco Bay. Copyright 1939 by San Francisco Bay Exposition. Published by Crocker Company, A Division of H.S. Crocker Co. Inc., 720 Mission Street, San Francisco. Engravings by American Engraving Co. (cover title) Official Guide Book: Revised edition. 25c. Golden Gate International Exposition. Cover by Si Vanderlaan. White, Ruth Taylor. (1939). A cartograph of Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. The Crocker Company. From the David Rumsey Map Collection https://tinyurl.com/2nukm6cf
Map a-day-in May (a thirty-one cabinet display)
Ruth Taylor White - Work spans 1928 to 1945 during the golden age of pictorial mapping. More info/links: #cartobibliography tinyurl.com/34hn54c3 #RuthTaylorWhite #Cartograph #PictorialMap #MapDayMay25 William C. Wonders Map Collection #WCWMC
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