| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 8036 |  | Details | Nadon, Paul and Sandi | 1985 |
| Colorful pictorial advertising poster of Seward, Alaska |
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Nadon, Paul and Sandi |
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| 1985 |
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| $325.00 | Nadon--Paul-and-Sandi | Colorful-pictorial-advertising-poster-of-Seward--Alaska | Colorful pictorial poster map of Seward, Alaska, drawn by Paul and Sandi Nadon and published by New Sensations in 1985. The sheet presents the harbor town of Seward on Resurrection Bay as a busy cartoon landscape, with streets, businesses, and waterfront activity rendered in bright hand drawn vignettes rather than formal cartography. A large vertical Seward banner along the left margin, smiling sun over the Kenai Mountains, and playful notes in the margins firmly place the map in the late twentieth century tourist boom along the Alaska coast.
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Within the town grid the artists label motels, cafes, shops, churches, and civic buildings, while the surrounding hills show wildlife, waterfalls, and campgrounds. The harbor is packed with cruise boats, fishing vessels, sailboats, and float planes coming and going from Resurrection Bay, all keyed to short text panels that highlight local attractions such as the Silver Salmon Derby. A puffin shaped compass rose, orcas, sea otters, and seabirds enliven the water, and humorous scenes on land convey the easygoing character of Seward as a working port and visitor destination.
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More than a simple street plan, the poster functions as an illustrated directory of mid-1980s Seward, preserving the look of its downtown businesses, harbor facilities, and tourist culture at a particular moment in time. The map should appeal to collectors of Alaska ephemera, pictorial map posters, and American roadside tourism, it is an engaging wall piece that rewards close inspection, with dozens of local references and comic details scattered across the sheet.
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