Collection: Osher Map Library Collection

Name: Defense map of United States showing the mobilization of our military and economic resources prepared by C.S. Hammond & Co.

Barcode: 58683

Image Number: 58683

Publishing Location: New York

Brief Description: This is a C.S. Hammond and Company pictorial map of the United States highlighting the military and economic resources available on the brink of World War II. The map depicts the United States from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic Seaboard and from the Canadian border to the Mexican border and Key West. Blue cogs highlight industrial areas around the country in an effort to illustrate the industrial might that would be brought to bear. Other defense industries are marked on the map by icons, including shipyards and factories making planes, airplane engines, munitions, tanks, guns, steel, and aluminum. Army and navy bases are identified as well, as are army and navy airfields. It is the pictorial border, however, that immediately draws the viewer's attention. The air, land, and sea forces of the United States military are put on full display, creating a forceful image that definitely falls under the umbrella of propaganda and the banner of 'support the military.

Publisher: C. S. Hammond and Company

Date/Date Range Produced: 1942

Date/Date Range Published: 1942

Language: English

Dimensions:  H 56 X W 81 cm

LC Call Number: G3701.S7 1941.C2

OCLC: 1126009022

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/58683