| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 6345 |  | Details | Roberts, Mike | 1966 |
| South Vietnam pictorial map mid-war era |
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Roberts, Mike |
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| 1966 |
| LOC:300 |
| $300.00 | Roberts--Mike | South-Vietnam-pictorial-map-mid-war-era | Fine pictorial poster-size map of South Vietnam. Created and published during the middle of the Vietnam War (1966) by Mike Roberts Color Productions. Map contains pictorial scenes of everyday life and of Vietnam War era aircraft and ships. Numerous inset photographs with scenes from simple Vietnamese everyday life, all in a format that suggests probable prior use as tourist-oriented postcards. (1)
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Mike Roberts (1905-1989) was known as America's Postcard King. Roberts had a long career in color photography and printing that spanned more than 50 years. He became an important pioneer of Kodachrome postcards in the United States. (2)
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Sources:<br />
(1) http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv643950<br />
(2) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wish-you-were-heremike-ro_b_7875752
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[Fine pictorial map of Vietnam.] |