Object Details
Designer
Amanda Williams, American, born 1974
Printer
Spudnik Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Description
Map of Chicago metropolitan area depicting a residential security map with colored geometric shapes correlating to a legend in the upper right corner. Green, blue, yellow, pink, and white rectangles stacked vertically next to "A FIRST GRADE/ B SECOND GRADE/ C THIRD GRADE/ D FOURTH GRADE", respectively. Below, "prepared by/ division of research and statistics/ federal home loan bank board/ with the co-operation of the/ appraisal department/ home owners loan corporation/ October 1939 - April 1940/ (color indicated grade)". "Lake Michigan" typed at center in a downward slope, following the general shape of the land.
Credit Line
Museum purchase through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative
Date
2019
Accession Number
2021-26-1
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
maps
Object Name
Print
Type
Print
Medium
Blind debossment, screen and relief printing on paper
Dimensions
152.4 × 142.2 cm (60 × 56 in.)
Frame H x W x D: 165.1 × 154.9 cm (5 ft. 5 in. × 5 ft. 1 in.)
place depicted
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_2021-26-1