Our U.S.A. - A Gay Geography
by: Ruth and Frank Taylor

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Co., 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format, red cloth covers stamped in blue. Covers with some corner wear. Contents are very good. Quite scarce with 58 original illustrated maps in vivid colors. A product of the 1930s, it depicts stereotypical images of people, such as on the Tennessee map (not pictured here) there are a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member in white hood and robe with a pistol and a bucket of tar, and a black person dragging a sack of cotton. In addition to these somewhat offensive images, it also reflects the times in terms of what was important or noteworthy about each area of each state be it growing corn, raising mules, crabbing, racing horses, making movies, sailing, Native Americans, national parks, quilting, romance, volcanoes, whales, rain, gold, or big trees. Pictorial endpapers designed by Taylor depict double hemisphere world maps. Art by Ruth Taylor (1900-) who was educated at the Pratt Institute of Art; the Art Students League. Name on half title page otherwise clean.