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A Lively Advertising Map of Cape Cod
Decorative pictorial map of the Cape Cod area, published in Portland Maine and illustrated by Janina Lamb of Tamworth, New Hampshire.
The map is copyrighted by White Mountain Graphics and printed by Portland Litho.
Janina Lamb still operates as Lamb & Lion Studio. On her website, where this map is one of several illustrated, Lamb writes:
A map or an ‟infographic" is an attempt to use visual signs, symbols and words to simplify and clarify complexity. Maps tend to be (accurately or inaccurately, seriously or humorously) a guide to unfamiliar spatial or conceptual territory. My definition of maps includes territory as anything we want to see or understand.
I used to create cartoon maps of towns for a company that made them into posters and puzzles. They got their money upfront by selling advertising to businesses. The advertisements were part of the map. To make these large images (entirely pre-digitally), I had to visit the place, take photos of all the featured businesses and anything else of note, study real maps of the area and then create a fake but recognizable version of the area upon which I could place all the buildings and hand-drawn logos, that would also be bright, colorful and funny so that people would want to buy it, even though it was just a gigantic ad, sort of. They were pretty cute actually, and I sure did learn how to copy logos.
![[Stage Harbor, Cape Cod, Massachusetts] port. fortuné](https://storage.googleapis.com/raremaps/img/small/78785.jpg)
