{"product_id":"oklahoma-map-1935-pictorial-print-oklahoma-city-tulsa-norman","title":"Oklahoma Map 1935 Pictorial Print - Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman","description":"\u003cp\u003eRuth Taylor White drew this pictorial map of Oklahoma for Our U.S.A., A Gay Geography, a whimsical cartoon atlas published by Little, Brown, and Company in 1935 with text by Frank J. Taylor, covering all 48 states in fifty-eight full-color illustrated sheets. This sheet appears on page 81 of the atlas, printed in bright lithographed color and filled with small hand-drawn scenes rather than any conventional survey detail, a style built to entertain a Depression-era audience as much as inform it. Oklahoma is shown here through its Native American heritage and its oil and ranching industries, the identities that most defined the state's popular image in the 1930s. Ruth Taylor White and Frank Taylor built the atlas as a joint effort, her illustrations paired with his short, wry captions, and the finished sheets sold well enough during the Depression that Little, Brown kept the title in print for several years after its first release.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNative American figures in traditional dress are illustrated across the state, a reflection of Oklahoma's origins as Indian Territory before statehood in 1907. Oil derricks mark the drilling activity that had, by the 1930s, become central to the state's economy. Cattle ranching scenes appear alongside general agricultural imagery, rounding out the state's rural economy. Wildlife and local landmarks are scattered throughout the map in the same dense illustrative style used across the atlas. Together the Native American imagery, the oil wells, and the cattle ranches sketch an Oklahoma defined by the layering of its tribal-nation origins with its newer oil and ranching economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn Oklahoma family with roots tied to any of the state's tribal nations, or to its oil or ranching industries, will find this map speaks to that directly, and it makes a distinctive gift for anyone who prefers a whimsical, Depression-era view of Oklahoma to a conventional antique survey. The store's other Indian Territory and Oklahoma editions include Cram's 1878 sheet and his later 1893 printing, both standard survey-style cartography; this 1935 Little, Brown sheet is the only pictorial, cartoon-style map of the state the collection carries. It's printed unframed and available in a range of sizes to fit whatever wall it's headed for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TheMapVault","offers":[{"title":"16x20 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58514758533451,"sku":"1550-16x20","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A2 (42x60cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58514758566219,"sku":"1550-A2","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"18x24 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58514758598987,"sku":"1550-18x24","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"50x70 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58514758631755,"sku":"1550-50x70","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A1 (60x84cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58514758664523,"sku":"1550-A1","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"24x32 inch - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58514758697291,"sku":"1550-24x32","price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"70x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58514758730059,"sku":"1550-70x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"75x100 cm - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58514758762827,"sku":"1550-75x100","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"A0 (84x119cm) - UNFRAMED","offer_id":58514758795595,"sku":"1550-A0","price":55.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/2456\/5323\/files\/SKU1550.jpg?v=1789683666","url":"https:\/\/www.themapvault.com\/products\/oklahoma-map-1935-pictorial-print-oklahoma-city-tulsa-norman","provider":"TheMapVault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}