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Ollie Hammond's Steak Houses: Dinner Menu

1948

“Tonight’s special THE VERY FINEST FILET MIGNON STEAK hashed browned or shoestring potatoes toasted sesame seed roll and coffee $2.25”Tourist map of Los Angeles and environs featuring the three Ollie Hammond’s Steakhouses at Beverly ...

 

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Pictorial Map of Oregon & Washington

1940

A lively and schematic map, created for Fortune Magazine, highlighting the produce and other resources of each state.Born in Fort Lee, New Jersey, Antonio Petruccelli developed his artistic talent at an early age and began his career as a textile...

 

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America the Wionderland

1941

An updated and more richly illustrated sequel to an earlier monochrome map by Chase The United States of America (1935), filled with an abundance of illustrations of buildings and landmarks, natural resources, scenic highlights and other attractions.&...

 

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Financial Irrigation of the United States

1934

One of two allegorical maps illustrating articles on the New Deal spending and taxes that appeared in Fortune Magazine in consecutive months. This map, published in December 1934, shows the "Financial Irrigation of the United States By Funds Appro...

 

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U.S.N. Ships-Bases-Men as of January 1938

March 1938

Unusually for Harrison, the current map, dramatically centered on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor, is presented on a Mercator Projection. A small inset orthographic projection of the North Pacific Ocean appears upper left.The United States Navy...

 

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Six WWII "NEWSMAP" Issues

1943

Pictured is a poster done by Theodore Geisel., Verso is a map by Richard Edes HarrisonPrinted on both sides with very attractive graphics.  Issues include work by well-known artists such as Al Capp and Theodore Geisel (not yet “Dr Seuss&rdq...

 

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Armour Food Source Map

c1960

In this promotional pictorial map of the United States, each state is defined by its agricultural produce. A History of the American Food Industry appears on the verso. It is the fourth edition, preceded by smaller versions of the map issued as p...

 

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Map of the North Island, New Zealand

c1892

New Zealand General Survey Office map of New Zealand’s North Island. Covers the area from the Tasman Sea to the South Pacific and from the Three Kings Islands to Karamea Bight. Very detailed including railroads as of 1887. Numerous coastal isla...

 

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Sunny Hawkes bay, New Zealand

1960

A promotional map, probably produced by the local tourist bureau, centred on the towns of Hastings “The Fruit Bowl of New Zealand” and Napier “New Zealand’s Riviera”, in the Heretaunga Plains area, close to Hawke’s Bay,...

 

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Pacific Arena. A Fortune Map. Orthographic Series II

1942

Centered on the North Pacific, the map shows the American Northwest, Russia, China, Southeast Asia and Australia. “Of all great arenas of this, the first true world war, the Pacific is the most difficult to conceive and visualize as a whole. That ...

 

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