(PICTORIAL MAPS.) The Crawfords. Group of 21
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(PICTORIAL MAPS.) The Crawfords. Group of 21 hand-printed textile maps. Variously colored screen-prints on cotton fabric. Approximately 12x18 inches each; occasional light foxing. Jamestown, RI, late 1940's/early 1950's
A marvelous suite of mid-20th-century pictorial placemat maps hand-fashioned by a little-known husband and wife duo, George and Margaret Crawford, at their home in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Each map offers appropriately simplified geographic detail with pleasant, familiar, illustrated emblems - they are very distinctive with a certain retro kitsch appeal. Titles include:
* Northern California and Nevada.
* Southern California/Arizona.
* Oregon/Idaho.
* The Great Lakes.
* Door County/Green Bay, Wisconsin.
* [Northern] Michigan.
* Detroit and Vicinity.
* North Carolina.
* South Carolina/Georgia.
* State of Florida and Gulf of Mexico.
* Suburban Philadelphia.
* Washington D.C./Del-Mar-Va.
* New York City/Manhattan I.
* Long Island.
* Adirondacks/Thousand Islands, New York.
* Vermont.
* Cape Cod.
* Nantucket.
* Watch Hill, Rhode Island.
* Block Island, R.I.
* Chart from Newport to Bermuda.
A marvelous suite of mid-20th-century pictorial placemat maps hand-fashioned by a little-known husband and wife duo, George and Margaret Crawford, at their home in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Each map offers appropriately simplified geographic detail with pleasant, familiar, illustrated emblems - they are very distinctive with a certain retro kitsch appeal. Titles include:
* Northern California and Nevada.
* Southern California/Arizona.
* Oregon/Idaho.
* The Great Lakes.
* Door County/Green Bay, Wisconsin.
* [Northern] Michigan.
* Detroit and Vicinity.
* North Carolina.
* South Carolina/Georgia.
* State of Florida and Gulf of Mexico.
* Suburban Philadelphia.
* Washington D.C./Del-Mar-Va.
* New York City/Manhattan I.
* Long Island.
* Adirondacks/Thousand Islands, New York.
* Vermont.
* Cape Cod.
* Nantucket.
* Watch Hill, Rhode Island.
* Block Island, R.I.
* Chart from Newport to Bermuda.
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(PICTORIAL MAPS.) The Crawfords. Group of 21
Estimate $500 - $750
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