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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(PICTORIAL MAPS.) The Crawfords. Group of 21 hand-printed textile maps. Variously colored screen-prints on cotton fabric. Approximately 12x18 inches each; occasional light foxing. Jamestown, RI, late 1940's/early 1950's
A marvelous suite of mid-20th-century pictorial placemat maps hand-fashioned by a little-known husband and wife duo, George and Margaret Crawford, at their home in Jamestown, Rhode Island.
Each map offers appropriately simplified geographic detail with pleasant, familiar, illustrated emblems - they are very distinctive with a certain retro kitsch appeal. Titles include:
Northern California and Nevada. Southern California/Arizona. Oregon/Idaho. The Great Lakes. Door County/Green Bay, Wisconsin. [Northern] Michigan. Detroit and Vicinity. North Carolina. South Carolina/Georgia. State of Florida and Gulf of Mexico. Suburban Philadelphia. Washington D.C./Del-Mar-Va. New York City/Manhattan I. Long Island. Adirondacks/Thousand Islands, New York. Vermont. Cape Cod. Nantucket. Watch Hill, Rhode Island. Block Island, R.I. Chart from Newport to Bermuda.
