Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America

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Object List for the Exhibition

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Introduction


The Booklover's Map of the United States
Amy Jones, Designer and Illustrator
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1949
Geography and Map Division
G3701 .E65 1949 .J6 (1)


Being a Literary Map of the United States
Depicting a Renaissance No Less Astonishing Than That of Periclean Athens,
Gladys and Sterling North, Editors; Frederic Dornseif, Cartographer
New York:G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1942
Geography and Map Division
G3701 .E65 1942 .N6 (2)


A Pictorial Chart of American Literature
Ethel Earle Wylie, Compiler; Ella Wall Van Leer, Illustrator
Chicago:Rand McNally, 1932
Geography and Map Division
G3701 .E65 1932 .W9 (3)


Map of American Literature, Showing Points of Interest With Backgrounds and Facts That Influenced American Writers
M.R. Klein, Illustrator
Cleveland Heights, Ohio: M.R. Klein, 1932
Geography and Map Division
G701 .E65 1932 .K5(4)


Black Writers for Young America
Rachel Davis, Illustrator
Washington, D.C.: District of Columbia Council of Teachers of English, 1976
Courtesy of the District of Columbia Council of Teachers of English
Geography and Map Division
G3701 .E65 1976 .D5 (5)


The Beat Generation Map of America
Molly Maguire, Designer; Stan Grant, Illustrator
Los Angeles: Aaron Blake, 1987
Courtesy of Aaron Silverman and Molly Maguire
Geography and Map Division
G3701 .E65 1987 .A2 (6)


Road to Glacier National Park, Montana
August 1941
Marion Post Wolcott, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USW3-58484-E (7)


A cotton field and plantation house, Macon, Georgia
July 1937
Dorothea Lange, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-17955-C (8)


Looking north over the Savoy Mountain Range of the Berkshire Mountains, Massachusetts
John Collier, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF-34-81066-C (9)


Portland Head Light
Maine, 1935
John Marshall, Photographer
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-39508 (10)


Desert scene along the Apache Trail, Gila County, Arizona
April 1940
Russell Lee, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-35922-D (11)


Gallipolis, Ohio
May 1943
Arthur Siegal, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LCUSW3-30437-D (12)


Northeast


Scenery between Gorham and Shelburne New Hampshire,
ca. 1940
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
Neg. No. to come (12a)


Franconia Village Notch, New Hampshire
ca. 1900
Prints & Photographs Division
Neg. No. to come (13)


Delaware Water Gap from New Jersey
Detroit: Detroit Publishing Company, ca. 1900
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-D4-11570 (14)


The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Ken Riley, Illustrator
Cleveland: Harris-Intertype, 1963
Gift of Richard Foley
Geography and Map Division
G3802 .G4E65 1757 .R5 (162)


The Voyage of the Pequod from the Book Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Everett Henry, Illustrator
Cleveland: Harris-Seybold, 1956
Geography and Map Division
G3201 .E65 1956 .H4 (17)


Boats at Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-40139 (19)


Literary Map of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English, 1965
Geography and Map Division
G3821 .E65 1965 .S9 (20)


A Literary Map of New Jersey
Moorestown: Moorestown Women's Club, 1927
Geography and Map Division
G3811 .E65 1927.H8(21)


Maine Writers
Ruth Rhoads Lepper, Mapmaker
Maine Council of Teachers of English, 1977
Copyright 1981, Maine Council for English Language Arts. Used by permission
Geography and Map Division
G3731 .E65 1977 .L4 (22)


The Literary Map of N[ew] Y[ork]
Linda Ayriss, Illustrator
Los Angeles: Aaron Blake, 1988
Courtesy of Aaron Silverman and Molly Maguire
Geography and Map Division
G3804.N4 .2M3E65 1988 .A2 (23)


Back of 340 East 63rd Street, New York
New York, 1938(?)
Sheldon Dick, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF-34-40103-D (24)


Northeast View from the Empire State Building
1931
William France, Photographer
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-118869(25)


Across the Common, Boston
Detroit: Detroit Publishing Company, ca. 1906
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-D4-155521L (26) Needs to be verified


The Presidential range of the White Mountains
New Hampshire, March 1940
Marion Post Wolcott, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-53406-D (27)


Thoreau's Cove, Walden, Concord, Massachusetts
Detroit: Detroit Publishing Company, ca. 1900
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-D4-34878 (28)


South


"Gloucester," Natchez, Mississippi
ca. 1941
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-58888 (29)


Valley farmland, near Wytheville, Virginia,
November 1940
Marion Post Wolcott, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-56757-D (29a)


Shadows of Old New Orleans,
1938
Annette Moore, Photographer
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-95784 (29b)


Mississippi River, Perthshire, Mississippi, in the Delta area
June 1940
Marion Post Wolcott, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-55202-D (31)


The Literary Map of the American South
Molly Maguire, Designer;
Los Angeles: Aaron Blake, 1988
Courtesy of Aaron Silverman and Molly Maguire
Geography and Map Division
G3866 .E65 1988 .A2 (32)


Tennessee Literature
Elizabeth Mims Hoffman, Illustrator
McClaren & Warren, 1976
Courtesy of the Tennessee Council of Teachers of English
Geography and Map Division
G3961 .E65 1996 .H6 (33)


Knoxville, Tennessee, 5th Avenue
Detroit: Detroit Publishing Company, ca. 1900
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-D4-39430 (34)


A Literary Map of Arkansas
Judith DuPree, Illustrator
Arkansas Council of Teachers of English, 1967
Geography and Map Division
G4001 .E65 1967 .D8 (35)


Louisiana Literature
Matthew J. Armand, Designer
Baton Rouge: Louisiana Library Association and the Louisiana Council of Teachers of English, 1992
Courtesy of the Louisiana Library Association and the Louisiana Council of Teachers of English
Geography and Map Division
G4011 .E65 1992 .A7 (36)


The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn From the Book by Mark Twain
Everett Henry, Illustrator
Cleveland: Harris-Intertype, 1959
Gift of Richard Foley
Geography and Map Division
G4042 .M5E65 185- .H4 (38)


A Literary Map of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Richmond: Virginia Association of Teachers of English, 1957
Courtesy of the Virginia Association of Teachers of English
Geography and Map Division
G3881 .E65 1957 .V5 (40)


Richmond, Virginia, and the James River,
1912
H.P. Cook, Photographer
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-31457 (41)


Modern Mississippi Writers: A Map of Literary Mississippi
Wyatt Waters, Illustrator
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1992
Used by permission of the University Press of Mississippi
Geography and Map Division
G3981 .E65 1987 .M5 (42)


Asheville, North Carolina
1908
Prints & Photographs Division
Neg No. to come (45)


Midwest


Farmland, Monona County Iowa
May 1940
John Vachon, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF-34-60793-D(49a)


Residential street, Elgin, Illinois
August 1941
John Vachon, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-63886-D (49b)


A farm between Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio
September 1943
Esther Bubley, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USW3-37462-E (49c)


Grain elevator and the flour mill district Minneapolis, Minnesota,
1939
John Vachon, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-60367-D (49d)


Freight train pulling out of one of the yards of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad, Chicago, Illinois
December 1942
Jack Delano, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USW3-12616-D (50)


A Literary Map of Indiana
Indiana Council of Teachers of English, 1974
Courtesy of Indiana Council of Teachers of English
Geography and Map Division
G4091 .E65 1974 .B6 (51)


Illinois Authors
Judie Anderson, Arn Arnam, Tom Heinz, Illustrators
Chicago: Chicago Tribune Educational Services, 1987
Geography and Map Division
G4101. E65 1987 .A5 (52)


Chicago, Illinois
April 1942
Jack Delano, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USW3-1480-D (53)


Historical and Literary Map of Iowa
Vira E. Moran, Illustrator
Davenport: Davenport Public Library, 1934
Geography and Map Division
G4151.S1 1934.M6 (54)


Harrowing the ground before planting, Jasper County, Iowa
May 1940
John Vachon, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-60865-D (55)


Nebraska Centennial Literary Map and Guide to Nebraska Authors
Jack Brodie, Illustrator
Nebraska Centennial Non-Profit Association, 1967
Geography and Map Division
G4191 .E65 1967 .B7 (56)


[Nebraska cornfield]
Courtesy of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission
P.O. Box 30370, Lincoln, Nebraska 68503-0370
Negative Number 3903 (57)


A Literary Map of Ohio
Donald Wenty, Designer
Columbus: Martha Kinney Cooper Ohioana Library Association, 1983
Courtesy of the Ohioana Library Association
Geography and Map Division
G4081 .E65 1983 .M3 (58)


A Map of Sinclair Lewis' United States as It Appears in His Novels
George Annand, Illustrator
New York, Doubleday, Doran, 1934
Geography and Map Division
(60)


[Lone Birch, Makinac Island, Michigan]
Detroit: Detroit Publishing Company, ca. 1900
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-D4-19037 (62)


The City Dressed for Her Wedding With Winter
Detroit: Detroit Publishing Company, ca. 1900-1910
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-D4-70203 (63)


West


New Mexico desert highway 70
June 1938
Dorothea Lange, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-18272-C (64)


Grand Canyon of the Colorado River Arizona,
1940
Russell Lee, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-37856-D (64b)


Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Skyline
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-20631 (64c)


Glacier National Park Montana
August 1941
Marion Post Wolcott, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-58095-D (65)


Hood River Valley Oregon
September 1941
Russell Lee, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-70357-D (66)


Wyoming Literary Map
Eugene V. Moran, Compiler; Ken Clubb, Illustrator
Laramie:University of Wyoming, 1984
Courtesy of Eugene V. Moran
Geography and Map Division
G4261 .E65 1984 .M6 (67)


Cattle gate and grazing land on a ranch Buford, Wyoming
September 1941
Marion Post Wolcott, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-59386-D (68)


The John Steinbeck Map of America
Molly Maguire, Designer; Jim Wolnick, Illustrator
Los Angeles: Aaron Blake, 1986
Courtesy of Aaron Silverman and Molly Maguire
Geography and Map Division
G3701 .E65 1986 .A2 (70)


Migrant from Chickasaw, Oklahoma stalled on the desert in southern California
March 1937
Dorothea Lange, Photographer
FSA-OWI Collection
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USF34-16311-E (71)


Oklahoma: Celebration of Literature
Judy Sprinkle, Illustrator
Norman: Oklahoma State Department of Education, 1983
Courtesy of Oklahoma State Department of Education
Geography and Map Division
G4021 .E65 1983 .O4 (73)


The Literary Map of Los Angeles
Molly Maguire, Designer; Linda Ayriss, Illustrator
Los Angeles: Aaron Blake, 1987
Courtesy of Aaron Silverman and Molly Maguire
Geography and Map Division
G4364 .L8E65 1987.A2 (75)


Washington Writers
Washington State Council of Teachers of English, 1989
Courtesy of Washington State Council of Teachers of English
Geography and Map Division
G4281.E65 1988.W3 (77)


Moonlight desert scene, Pinal County, Arizona
1935-1940
Prints & Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-86224 (78)


The Virginian from America's First Western Novel Written by Owen Wister
Everett Henry, Illustrator
Cleveland: Harris-Intertype, 1962
Gift of Richard Foley
Geography and Map Division
G4261 .E65 1890 .H4 (163)

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