A Gay Geography

Farms, factories and cartoon figures crowd Ruth Taylor's colourful pictorial maps from Our U.S.A.: A Gay Geography, which sh...

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Farms, factories and cartoon figures crowd Ruth Taylor's colourful pictorial maps from Our U.S.A.: A Gay Geography, which show the interwar United States state by state with considerable humour. Published in Boston by Little, Brown and Company in 1935, the book paired her maps with text by Frank J. Taylor. Within the familiar state outlines, small figures convey regional industries, crops, scenery and popular associations, though the humour also carries the stereotypes of the period. Coverage extends to Washington, American Samoa and Caribbean destinations, and Alaska and Hawaii appear as the territories they then were.

Farms, factories and cartoon figures crowd Ruth Taylor's colourful pictorial maps from Our U.S.A.: A Gay Geography, which show the interwar United States state by state with considerable humour. Published in Boston by Little, Brown and Company in 1935, the book paired her maps with text by Frank J. Taylor. Within the familiar state outlines, small figures convey regional industries, crops, scenery and popular associations, though the humour also carries the stereotypes of the period. Coverage extends to Washington, American Samoa and Caribbean destinations, and Alaska and Hawaii appear as the territories they then were.

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