Old Map of Scotland in 1935 by Colortext Publications - Story Map, Flora MacDonald, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Jacobite History
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Somewhere between a wall chart and a storybook sits the Story Map of Scotland, issued in 1935 by the Chicago firm Colortext Publications as part of a series of pictorial Story Maps that eventually covered Ireland, France, England, Mexico and the United States alongside Scotland. Where a conventional pictorial map of the period might simply scatter castles and tartans across a decorative outline, this particular sheet was built around a narrative: it follows the rising of 1745 and its aftermath, using vignettes and captions to walk the viewer through the flight and near-capture of Charles Edward Stuart rather than presenting Scotland as a static gallery of scenery.
The map's illustrations trace the Jacobite rising from Charles Edward Stuart's landing in the Outer Hebrides, through his march toward Edinburgh and the eventual defeat at Culloden in 1746, and on to his celebrated escape across the Hebrides disguised as a maid in the company of Flora MacDonald, who is pictured and named on the sheet alongside the prince himself. A decorative ring of tartan swatches runs around the coastline, representing dozens of Scottish clans, while an elaborate title cartouche and the arms of the Stewart royal house anchor the design, and towns, lochs and historic sites across the Highlands and Lowlands are picked out with small pen drawings rather than plain lettering.
Where the store's other 1935 pictorial map of Scotland reads as an illustrated reference to castles and clan tartans, this Story Map is built to be followed almost like a chronicle of eighteenth-century history. It is reproduced at high resolution from an original 1935 print and offered in several sizes. For anyone drawn to the Jacobite cause or the golden age of American pictorial cartography, that narrative structure is the whole point.
