Gaffney, Walter M.
1933

Pictorial advertising map for the Cape Cod Creamery

Unrecorded Cape Cod Creamery pictorial advertising map

DESCRIPTION: Historical pictorial map for Cape Cod Creamery ca. 1933 by Walter M. Gaffney. An unrecorded advertising piece for Cape Cod Creamery, associated with Noble's milk. On heavy card stock. Maps numerous historical and geographic locations including Pilgrim Monument, the Highland Light, Pleasant Bay, the Sandy Neck Light, the Cape Cod Canal. Scattered in each corner is a logo for Noble's milk, the map shows several delivery trucks labeled "Noble's that's good milk", and the large compass rose with a bottle of milk arranged at the center. Small piece of contiguous card stock apparently fashioned into a print hanger suggests the piece may have been trimmed into this shape by a previous owner.

Includes Buzzards Bay, Duxbury Bay, Provincetown Harbor, Wellfleet Harbor, Barnstable Harbor, Pleasant Bay, and a portion of Nantucket Sound.

"Wellfleet or Whalefleet as it was originally called undoubtedly surpassed other towns. In 1843 a whale was captured near the end of the Cape and estimated to contain 200 barrels of oil and 2000 pounds of bone. Only 125 barrels of oil and 300 lbs. of bone were saved but with this waste it netted $10,000."


Gaffney is also credited with a larger pictorial map of Cap Cod 1932, in a different style, less historically oriented.

Walter Melvin Gaffney
(1900 - 1983)



Walter Gaffney was an American engineer and architect who lived from 1900 to 1983. He is best known for his detailed historical maps of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, particularly of the towns and villages in Barnstable County. Gaffney issued his most well-known map "A Map of Cape Cod" during the Great Depression in part to help compensate for a loss of business during those difficult years.

CREATOR: Gaffney, Walter M.

PUBLICATION DATE: 1933

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States

BODY OF WATER: Cape Cod Bay

CONDITION: Good.  Clean on heavy card stock.

COLORING: Litho. Color.

ENGRAVER: 

SIZE: 7 " x 10 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 13

PRICE: $550

ADD TO CART

This web site provides security by Rapid SSL



Use Visa credit card Use Discover credit card
Use MasterCardcredit card Use American Express credit card

Similar items: