This map predates the well-known illustration A View of the
World from Ninth Avenue by Saul Steinberg, which served as the
cover of the March 29, 1976, edition of the New Yorker and had
a similar satirical viewpoint (fig. 14).
Cartographic responses to the New Yorker’s map of the United
States did not take long to make their appearance. Wallingford
also published A Bostonian’s Idea of the United States of America,
similar in concept, in the 1950s, and from “The ‘Green’ State”
of Wisconsin A true and undistorted map of the U.S.A. made in
Wisconsin by Les Williams was released in Pine River (Wisconsin)
in 1952 by A. C. Kimball (plate 44). A yellow color, representative
of the butter, cheese, and beer for which Wisconsin is known,
covers most of the center of the whole country, and a multitude of
small drawings caricaturize the image of that state and of the rest
of the United States.
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