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Arthur B. Suchy
Title
Meander Down to Miami Florida's Magic City [cover title:] This Map Was Given To You as a Souvenir of Miami
Publication Place / Date
Miami / 1935 circa
Image Dimensions
18.75 x 22.5 inches
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Condition
VG+
Stock# 88583
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Description

The Best Miami Pictorial Map.

A beautiful and detailed pictorial map of Miami created around 1935 by artist Arthur B Suchy for the Miami Herald. The map features an elaborate border with a cornucopia of fruit and panels showing various recreational activities set against blue skies. The bottom panel depicts Ponce de Leon's ship sailing over the horizon, while the top panel showcases a red parrot and the coast of South Florida. The map itself covers Miami and Miami Beach, with insets of Miami within the state of Florida and Florida within the United States. The map image is dominated by a stylized sun rising in the southeast corner, giving it a unique and striking visual appearance.

Arthur B Suchy, the map's artist, was based in Cleveland, Ohio. He also made maps of Key West and Ohio: Mother of Presidents.

Stephen J. Hornsby, in Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps (page 150) describes Suchy's map of Miami:

Published in the Miami Herald to lure tourists to "Florida's Magic City," Suchy's brilliant design is dominated by an art deco-inspired sun shining its yellow rays onto the swampy green of the mainland. The map's border evokes Miami's lushness, its popular pastimes, and the Spanish Main. Two inset maps show Miami's location in the United States and Florida.

Rarity

Not recorded in OldMaps.com and no records, other than the present example, in RBH. We locate examples at Touchton Map Library, LC, and the Rumsey Center, and likely other institutional collection, but the map is very rare on the market.

Condition Description
Color-printed folding map. Minor soiling to verso.
Reference
Hornsby, page 150-51, plate 72. Rumsey 8495.
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