DESCRIPTION: Fine lithographed cartograph or pictorial map of the island of Hawaii by Ruth Taylor White. In 1931 White produced four maps of individual islands for the Hawaii Tourist Bureau: Kauai, Maui, Hawaii, Oahu, and one map of the entire Hawaiian Island chain. Printed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
Locations and features that White featured in her map of Hawaii include:"
- Mauna Kea
- Mauna Loa
- Kilauea
- Hilo
- Kealakekua Bay
- Kailua
- Upolu Point
- Hookena
- Hoopuloa
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: 1931
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States
BODY OF WATER: Pacific Ocean
CONDITION: Very good.
Lithographed, clean and bright.
COLORING: Litho
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 15
" x
11 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 89
PRICE: $200
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