Subject: Memphis, Tennessee
Period: 1936 (circa)
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Color: Printed Color
Size:
21.5 x 21.8 inches
54.6 x 55.4 cm
This detailed map of the city presents the street-grid pattern extending from Riverside Park north to the Wolf River and from the Mississippi River east to beyond Robert Galloway Park. Color overprinting indicates highways (red) along with street cars and buses (green). The verso contains a skyline view of the city and extensive 1936 statistics on the city and its economy showing the dramatic impact of the Depression. Printed by the C.A. Davis Printing Company. Self-folding (3.7 x 8.2”). We found only one institutional example on OCLC for this issue.
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Condition: B+
Issued folding with minor creasing and a couple of tiny splits along the fold lines.