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1952 Pictorial Map of the Southeastern United States: Pirates, Treasure, Florida
PiratesSoutheasternUS-schlensker-1952$475.00
Title
Pirates and Treasures of the Southeastern States.
1952 (dated) 16.25 x 20.25 in (41.275 x 51.435 cm) 1 : 24000000
1952 (dated) 16.25 x 20.25 in (41.275 x 51.435 cm) 1 : 24000000
Description
This is a playful but informative Keiser and Schlensker 1952 pictorial map of the southeastern United States illustrating lost, sunken, and buried treasure and romanticizing the region's pirate history.
A Closer Look
Coverage embraces the southeastern United States, from Tennessee and North Carolina to Louisiana and Florida. The colorful map is replete with annotations and illustrations that reference historical lost treasures, ranging from pirate treasure to sunken treasure ships, to American Indian troves, to ghost mines, to buried Civil War fortunes. The borders feature a rundown of regional pirate history, highlighting such pirate icons as Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach, Jose 'Gasparilla' Gaspar, Henry Morgan, John 'Calico Jack' Rackham, Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Jean Lafite.Publication History and Census
This map was drawn by Florida cartoonist Henry G. Schlensker and published by Fred C. Keiser in Orlando, Florida, in 1952. While Schlensker is well known for his cartooning work, Keiser is a mystery, and this is his only known publication. He is likely Frederick Croswell Keiser Jr. (1907 - 1982) of Orlando, Florida. The map is rare. We see no holdings in institutional collections and no market history.Cartographer
Henry Gerhardt Schlensker (April 12, 1914 – February 13, 1997) was an American cartoonist active in Orlando, Florida, in the mid to late 20th century. Schlensker was born in Rochester, New York. He was drafted into the Army Air Corps to fight World War II (1939 - 1945) in the East Asian theater. After the war, in 1946, 31-year-old Schlensker, who had created the cartoon character Biff Baker with Ernest Lynn (1941 - 1945), settled in Orlando, where he became Roy Crane's art assistant. Crane and Schlensker collaborated on the military-themed syndicated comic strip 'Buzz Sawyer'. Crane and co-creator Edwin Granberry providing direction and content while Schlensker did the actual drawing. 'Buzz Sawyer' stopped being made in 1983. Schlensker died in Orlando in 1997. More by this mapmaker...
Condition
Very good. Some wear on old fold lines. Minor verso reinforcement at edges, here and there.