JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
What a simple and semi-magnificent map is this! A spaghetti map of the U.S. featuring road types, more than half of which were allocated as a “low type” of “MUD or DUST”.
The map is in a disheartening and potentially numbing pamphlet on road improvement, which– had there been a simple cover for the work I would have quickly skipped by–however, the maps, data, and the lurking insomnia of boredom is perfectly hidden by this:
Holy cow! This is marvelously striking–and just look at that “T”!
In any event, the pamphlet is loaded with small woodcuts and graphics illustrating its point, which was to take Depression-available workforces and put them to work on repair of old and construction of new roads.
The anonymous illustrator and/or designer certainly made a commendable and superior effort in making this fairly dry pamphlet, um, interesting.