Utah Map 1935 Pictorial Print - Salt Lake City, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon

Little, Brown and Company published Our U.S.A. A Gay Geography in 1935, a pictorial atlas giving each of the forty-eight states one densely illustrated page of industries, landmarks, and everyday activities; the text throughout was written by Frank J. Taylor, and the maps themselves were drawn by Ruth Taylor White, trained at the Pratt Institute and the Art Students League. Utah's page centers on Salt Lake City and the Great Salt Lake alongside Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, and Monument Valley, with figures skiing, mining, and farming scattered across the state's mountains and basins. Utah lies at the heart of the Mountain West, and in 1935 its economy still rested heavily on mining, irrigated farming, and the tourism just beginning to build around its new national parks.

Salt Lake City anchors the map as the state's capital and largest settlement, shown beside the Great Salt Lake that gives the city its name. Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon appear as scenic highlights in the state's south, their canyon walls rendered in the map's bright palette, while Monument Valley marks the dramatic red-rock country toward the Arizona border. Skiing figures dot the mountains, and scenes of mining and farming point to the industries that carried Utah's economy through the 1930s. Small illustrated labels mark the state's major towns and natural features throughout, giving the page a sense of geographic order beneath its playful surface. The page reads as a tour of Utah's extremes, from salt flat to sandstone canyon, gathered onto a single illustrated sheet.

A Utah native who grew up under the Wasatch Range will recognize plenty here, and the map works just as well for a former Salt Lake City resident who has since settled elsewhere, or for a collector working through this whimsical 1935 series state by state. Its bright, illustrated style captures Utah's parks and industries with genuine period charm rather than dry cartography, and it reads as well on a wall today as it did in a 1930s parlor. It is available unframed in a range of sizes, suited equally to a compact study print or a larger statement piece for a living room or office.