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Ernest Dudley Chase, A Pictorial Map of the New England States, U.S.A.

Map, New England, Pictorial, Ernest Dudley Chase, Vintage Print, 1939

Ernest Dudley Chase (1878-1966)
A Pictorial Map of the New England States, U.S.A.
Ernest Dudley Chase, Winchester, Massachusetts: 1939
Signed lower left in pencil: “Et Dudley Chase”
Sepia print with colored highlights
25.25 x 19.25 inches, overall

Pictorial map of New England, filled with drawings of buildings, landmarks and historic sites, along with a few animals and depictions of people engaged in activities such as fishing, skiing and gathering blueberries. There are several larger inset illustrations of historic homes, state houses and other buildings, and a striking Art Deco compass rose printed in yellow, red, and black. Geographical features include cities and towns, mountains, rivers, ponds, lakes and hiking trails. The Harvard University Map Collection also owns an example of this map.

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Ernest Dudley Chase, Boston, Birthplace of the Telephone, A Pictorial Map

Map, Boston, Pictorial, Birthplace of Telephone, Ernest Dudley Chase, Vintage Print, 1947 (Sold)

Ernest Dudley Chase (1878-1966)
Boston, Birthplace of the Telephone,
A Pictorial Map of the Down Town Area
New England Telephone & Telegraph Company, Boston, Massachusetts: 1947
Color-process print
20.25 x 27.5 inches, border
22 x 29 inches, overall

Pictorial map of downtown Boston commemorating the centennial of the birth of Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), who invented the telephone there in 1876 and co-founded the Bell Telephone Company the following year. The map is filled with drawings of buildings, landmarks and historic sites from the colonial period to the present, with an emphasis on “Historic Telephone Sites of Boston,” which are listed in the legend on the left. On the right is a reproduction of an early advertisement for Boston’s Telephone Dispatch Co., explaining how a telephone call is made and listing current business customers as an inducement for others to join the system. There are several captioned illustrations related to the history of telephony surrounding the map. The bell-shaped emblem of the Bell Telephone Company recurs throughout, enclosing the cartouche and a series of pictures chronicling the evolution of phone design at the top. The border design features a looping line of telephone wire connecting four illustrations related to the theme. Geographical features include streets, railroads, piers, and parks. The map was published by the New England Telephone & Telegraph Company, part of the Bell System of telephone companies until the system’s breakup in 1984.

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Ernest Dudley Chase, Boston (Massachusetts) and Vicinity: A Pictorial Map

Map, Boston and Vicinity, Pictorial, Ernest Dudley Chase, Vintage Print, 1938 (Sold)

Ernest Dudley Chase (1878-1966)
Boston (Massachusetts) and Vicinity: A Pictorial Map
Ernest Dudley Chase, Winchester, Massachusetts: 1938
Signed lower left in pencil: “Ernest Dudley Chase”
Sepia print with colored highlights
19 x 25 inches, overall

Pictorial map of the city of Boston and vicinity, filled with drawings of buildings, landmarks and historic sites, many related to Boston’s important role in Colonial history. There are several larger inset illustrations of buildings such as the Masonic Temple and Simmons College. Geographical features include streets, railroads, piers, cemeteries, lowlands, and the route of Paul Revere’s ride. The map includes the area west of Boston from Concord in the north to Natick in the south. The Harvard University Map Collection owns examples of this map.

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Ernest Dudley Chase, Aloha: A Pictorial Map of the Hawaiian Islands, the United States' Fiftieth State

Map, Hawaii, Pictorial, Ernest Dudley Chase, Vintage Print, 1960 (Sold)

Ernest Dudley Chase (1878-1966)
Aloha: A Pictorial Map of the Hawaiian Islands, the United States’ Fiftieth State
Doris Riemann, Kihei, Maui, Hawaii: 1960
Color-process print
17.75 x 24 inches, border
19 x 25 inches, overall

Pictorial map of the Hawaiian Islands produced the year after Hawaii became the 50th state in the U.S. Geographical features include roads and volcanoes drawn in bird’s-eye view perspective. Towns, national parks, beaches, landings, and channels are labeled. The borders are decorated with pictures of buildings, animals, pineapples and palm trees on the islands, and marine life and boats in the sea. Numerous captioned inset illustrations depict landmarks and scenery. Surrounding the cartouche are keys for finding the post offices and points of interest on the map, along with brief texts about Hawaiian history and people, flora and fauna, the Mauna Loa volcano, holidays and festivals, the luau, and “Odd Facts.” The map publisher, Doris Riemann, owned a chain of bookstores in Alaska and Hawaii from 1959 to 1989.

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Ernest Dudley Chase, A Pictorial Map of North America

Map, North America, Pictorial, Ernest Dudley Chase, Vintage Print, 1945

Ernest Dudley Chase (1878-1966)
A Pictorial Map of North America
Ernest Dudley Chase, Winchester, Massachusetts: 1945
Signed lower left in pencil
Color-process print
27.5 x 20.25 inches, overall

Pictorial map of the North American continent, from Greenland in the north to Panama in the south. The map is filled with drawings of buildings, landmarks and wildlife. Along the right and left margins are numerous larger circular inset illustrations of historic architecture and scenery. Geographical features include national boundaries, states and provinces, major cities, rivers and other large bodies of water. The map is decorated with a red, yellow and black compass rose and an Art Deco geometric border design. The Harvard University Map Collection also owns an example of this map.

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Ernest Dudley Chase, America the Wonderland, A Pictorial Map of the United States

Map, United States, Pictorial, America the Wonderland, Ernest Dudley Chase, Vintage Print, 1941

Ernest Dudley Chase (1878-1966)
America the Wonderland – A Pictorial Map of the United States
Ernest Dudley Chase, Winchester, Massachusetts: 1941
Signed lower left in pencil: Et Dudley Chase
Color-process print
20.75 x 27.5 inches, border
22 x 29 inches, overall, image

Pictorial map of the United States of America, filled with an abundance of illustrations of buildings and landmarks, natural resources, scenic highlights and other attractions. Included are the Empire State Building, the Capitol building, the Rose Bowl, various missions and churches, oil wells, factories, buffalo, horses, state capital buildings, and the Alamo. Around the map are several larger inset views with brief descriptions, for example, the Mormon Temple of Salt Lake City, the Lincoln Memorial, Rockefeller Chapel, Independence Hall, and Yale University. Geographical features include states, major cities, universities, national parks, rivers and lakes. The map is decorated with a red, yellow and black compass rose in the upper right corner; a cartouche flanked by two bald eagles perched on banners; and an Art Deco border with acorn and leaf corners. The Harvard University Map Collection also an example of this map. This map is an updated, colorful and more richly illustrated sequel to an earlier monochrome map by Chase, The United States of America (1935).

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Ernest Dudley Chase, The Philatelic Institute’s Stamp Map of the United States

Map, United States, Pictorial, Philatelic, Ernest Dudley Chase, Vintage Print, 1959 (Sold)

Ernest Dudley Chase (1878-1966)
The Philatelic Institute’s Stamp Map of the United States
The Philatelic Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1959
Color-process print
21.75 x 34 inches, overall

Pictorial map of the United States, featuring reproductions of U.S. postage stamps, most of which are placed on or near the corresponding locales featured on the stamp. Thematic arrangements of other stamps surround the map, including a grouping of past presidents and another of stamps honoring the armed forces. Along with the stamps are Chase’s small drawings of landmarks. Geography is simple: state lines, and generally only one or two major cities per state. There is an inset map of Alaska, which had recently joined the U.S. as the 49th state, and a box with a chronology of “Postage Firsts” from “Adhesive Stamps” in 1847 to the “Flying Post Office” in 1946. In the top center of the map is an inset illustration of a mail carrier at work with the U.S. Post Office motto and seal. The Harvard University Map Collection also owns an earlier map, similar to this one, titled The Pictorial Map, Stamps of America, published in 1947. That map also consists of a map of the United States with many of the same illustrations and the same table of Postage Firsts, but a different arrangement of postage stamps, designed, drawn and published by Chase in Winchester, Massachusetts, with “research by Charles Peck Kerr.”

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Ernest Dudley Chase, The United States as Viewed by California (Very Unofficial)

Map, United States as Viewed by California, Pictorial, Ernest Dudley Chase, Vintage Print, 1940 (Sold)

Ernest Dudley Chase (1878-1966)
The United States as Viewed by California (Very Unofficial)
Ernest Dudley Chase, Winchester, Massachusetts: 1940
Signed lower left in pencil: “Et Dudley Chase”
Black and white print
25 x 19 inches, overall

Playful pictorial map showing the United States from the point of view of a chauvinistic Californian, with the Sun smiling on a disproportionately large California while the rest of the country is compressed into a largely undifferentiated spider’s web beneath dark rain clouds. Throughout the state, upbeat illustrations feature its agriculture, recreational opportunities and wildlife, and depict landmarks such as Spanish Colonial missions, the Rose Bowl, the Bakersfield oil wells and the state capital building. An airplane in the sky bearing the slogan “we’ll soon be there!” approaches the state line along with a train, a bus and cars, while railroad cars carrying California produce head east. Chase probably was inspired by Daniel K. Wallingford’s popular maps A New Yorker’s Idea of the United States of America, and A Bostonian’s Idea of the United States of America, both of which were first published around 1936 and redraw the U.S. with a similar comic premise. The Harvard University Map Collection owns a copy of this map.

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Ernest Dudley Chase, The United States of America

Map, United States, Pictorial, Ernest Dudley Chase, Vintage Print, 1935

Ernest Dudley Chase (1878-1966)
The United States of America
Ernest Dudley Chase, Winchester, Massachusetts: 1935
Signed lower left in pencil: Ernest Dudley Chase
Sepia print with colored highlights
24.75 x 18.75 inches, overall

Pictorial map of the United States of America, filled with drawings of buildings and landmarks, other structures such as dams and oil wells, scenery, small figures of people engaged in activities such as farming and fishing, and modes of transportation such as airplanes and ships. A few of the illustrations are historical, such as clipper ships in the oceans, and Native American warriors chasing a stage coach in Kansas and Colorado. Around the map are several larger inset illustrations of buildings. Geographical features include states, major cities, national parks, rivers and lakes. The map is also decorated with a red, orange and black compass rose in the lower left corner, a bald eagle with wings spread above the cartouche, and an Art Deco border. The Harvard University Map Collection also owns two examples of this map, one sepia like the one shown here, and one printed black and white.

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The Good Neighbor Pictorial Map of South America

Map, South America, Pictorial, Ernest Dudley Chase, Vintage Print, 1942

Ernest Dudley Chase (1878-1966) (after)
The Good Neighbor Pictorial Map of South America
Ernest Dudley Chase, Winchester, Massachusetts: 1942
Signed lower left in pencil
Color-process print
27.5 x 20.5 inches, image
29 x 22 inches, overall

World War II-era pictorial map of South America with a positive message of solidarity between South America and the U.S. The cartography includes rivers, cities and towns, and major mountain ranges. There are dozens of illustrations within the map featuring flora and fauna, historical sites and important buildings and landmarks. Surrounding the cartouche and in strips along the borders are captioned circular illustrations set within an intricate Spanish-influenced decorative design. The map is printed in blue, yellow, pink, green and black. Chase made other maps in 1942, including Total War Battle Map, which included the entire world and is also on our website.

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