gangsters – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:15:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg gangsters – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 For Sale: Original Copy of Chicago Gangland Map https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/06/for-sale-original-copy-of-chicago-gangland-map/ Thu, 07 Jun 2018 13:15:33 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1785764 More]]>
A Map of Chicago’s Gangland from Authentic Sources (Bruce Roberts, 1931). Map, 71×57 cm. Daniel Crouch Rare Books.

Much is being made of the sale by Daniel Crouch Rare Books of an original copy of a pictorial map of Prohibition-era Chicago. Published in 1931, A Map of Chicago’s Gangland from Authentic Sources featured the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and other episodes from Chicago’s gang wars and numerous other scenes of rum-running, police corruption and gang activity. So naturally the authorities did their best to suppress the map. The map will be on display at the London Map Fair this weekend; Daniel Crouch is asking £20,000 for it. But if you don’t have that kind of money, other copies do exist in libraries, such as Chicago’s Newberry Library, which I believe has sold facsimile reprints of the map. See coverage from Atlas Obscura, CBS Chicago and the Daily Mail. [Tony Campbell]

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