Collection: Osher Map Library Collection

Name: Eating 'round the map

Barcode: 58470

Image Number: 58470.0001a

Creator: Campbell, Elmer Simms

Publishing Location: New York

Brief Description: Map by Elmer Simms Campbell, the first African-American cartoonist to publish in periodicals such as Esquire and the New Yorker. Included is an article that accompanied the map by Ted Shane in Esquire magazine published on July,1940. It was critical of local cuisines across the United States which includes "Hollywood awful food and phooey salads" and the midwest designated "Bicarbonate Desert".

Date/Date Range Published: Jul 1940

Language: English

Region Depicted: United States

Map Type: Pictorial maps

Dimensions: 21 x 31 cm on sheet 26 x 35 cm + magazine article

LC Call Number: G3701.A5 1940 C3

OCLC: 1379855394

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/58470.0001a