1938 Salloch / Augustin Pictorial Map of New York City
CartoonMapNYC-shalloch-1938-2$400.00
Title
Cartoon Map of New York City.
1938 (dated) 12 x 26 in (30.48 x 66.04 cm) 1 : 32620
1938 (dated) 12 x 26 in (30.48 x 66.04 cm) 1 : 32620
Description
This is a 1938 Henry Emil Salloch pictorial map of New York City. The map depicts the city from Battery Park to the Bronx and from the Hudson River and Jersey City to Brooklyn and Queens. Wonderfully illustrated, pictorial vignettes highlight neighborhoods, buildings, and other landmarks throughout the city. The Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, the Flat Iron Building, and Rockefeller Center are just a few of the landmarks depicted. The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural History are both noted along Central Park, as are the Central Park Zoo and Columbia University. Times Square is written in lights, while Greenwich Village is marked by a painter at their easel. Madison Square, Union Square, and Washington Square, complete with its arch, are also included. The map also includes racist caricatures to mark China Town, the 'Jewish Ghetto' in the Lower East Side, Harlem, and the Harlem Market. 'The Ghetto', as it was known in the first few decades of the twentieth century, was simply the part of New York City where many Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe created their community on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. At the time, these Jewish immigrants made this neighborhood the most crowded neighborhood in the world.
The city's bridges are illustrated in profile and labeled, among these are the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge, and the recently opened Triborough Bridge. A sign at the Queens end of the Queensboro Bridge points the way to the 1939 New York World's Fair, with its trademark Trylon and Perisphere just to the right. Two minor New York City celebrities are also illustrated in the Bronx: Peter the Great the hippopotamus and Alice the Asian elephant, who both lived in the Bronx Zoo. Peter the Great was born at the Central Park Zoo before being transferred to the Bronx and lived to be fifty years old, while Alice came to the zoo via Luna Park at Coney Island and was reportedly 'the most human connected elephant the zoo ever had'.
This map was drawn by Henry Emil Salloch, a German Jewish refugee who escaped from Nazi Germany and arrived in the United States in 1937, and was published by J.J. Augustin in the Cartoon Guide of New York City.
The city's bridges are illustrated in profile and labeled, among these are the Brooklyn Bridge, the Manhattan Bridge, the Williamsburg Bridge, and the recently opened Triborough Bridge. A sign at the Queens end of the Queensboro Bridge points the way to the 1939 New York World's Fair, with its trademark Trylon and Perisphere just to the right. Two minor New York City celebrities are also illustrated in the Bronx: Peter the Great the hippopotamus and Alice the Asian elephant, who both lived in the Bronx Zoo. Peter the Great was born at the Central Park Zoo before being transferred to the Bronx and lived to be fifty years old, while Alice came to the zoo via Luna Park at Coney Island and was reportedly 'the most human connected elephant the zoo ever had'.
This map was drawn by Henry Emil Salloch, a German Jewish refugee who escaped from Nazi Germany and arrived in the United States in 1937, and was published by J.J. Augustin in the Cartoon Guide of New York City.
CartographerS
Henry Emil Salloch (December 31, 1908 - August 1985) was a German-American artist and graphic designer. Born Heinz Emil Salloch in Berlin, Germany, Salloch studied art at the Muthesiushochschule, Kiel. In 1929, he returned to Berlin to teach art. After the rise of National Socialism and Adolf Hitler, Salloch refused to join the Nazi Party. In defiance of party edicts, he invited Jewish pupils to a school Christmas Party and refused to use the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter in his class. This caught the attention of the Gestapo. After being informed by his landlady that the Gestapo had been asking about him, Salloch fled the country and ended up in Cuba before immigrating to the United States in 1937. He spent the late 1930s traveling up the U.S. East Coast from Florida to New York, where he lived in Montauk for a while. The 1940 U.S. Census notes Salloch as living as a bachelor in New York City. Salloch married Erika Salloch, a Jewish refugee and professor of German at Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. Today, the Erika and Henry Salloch Prize is given by the Department of Modern Languages at Washington College, to the student whose achievement and personal commitment have contributed to the understanding of other cultures. Photo provide courtesy of the Salloch family. More by this mapmaker...
Johannes Jakob Augustin (October 12, 1904 - March 1, 1984) was a Jewish-American New York City based printer and publisher active in the mid-20th century. Augustin inherits the legacy of one of the world's oldest and longest running printshops. The firm was founded in 1632 by Andreas Koch in Glückstadt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. At its founding the print shop was approved by the Danish King Christian IV and became one of the country's most important publishers - with an unusual specialization in foreign characters. In 1775, it was taken over by Jakob Johann Augustin (fl. 1775 - 1806), who renamed it Druckerei J. J. Augustin. The firm continued in the Augustin family for more than 200 years, and remains active today. Johannes Jakob Augustin Augustin was born in Glückstadt, Germany and apprenticed all aspects of the family business before perusing additional studies in art, music, and oriental languages in Innsbruck, Vienna, Paris, Leipzig, and London. He returned to Glückstadt in 1932 to work in the family press under his father, Heinrich Wilhelm Augustin (fl. 1905 - 1938). His name appears on the rolls of Jews who had their nationality annulled by the Nazi Regime in 1935. Unsurprisingly, in 1936, fleeing anti-Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, Augustin moved to Havana, then in 1937 to New York. In New York he established the J. J. Augustin print shop at 125 E 23d St. After World War II, he reestablished connections with his family shop in Germany, and in 1950, he took over and ran remotely from his home in Long Island, New York. He died in 1984. Learn More...
Source
Hogner, Nils and Guy Scott, Cartoon Guide of New York City, (New York: J.J. Augustin) 1938.
Condition
Very good. Light wear along original fold lines. Verso repair at fold intersection. Blank on verso.
References
Cornell University, Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection, 2159.01. Rumsey 8769.003. OCLC 949663864.