Name/Title
Map of Berkeley, Oakland and AlamedaEntry/Object ID
1978.043.244Description
Pictorial map with vignettes of history around its borders. No street names.
Very colorful and whimsical map. Map comes in its own paper folder, also colorful. "Designed by Michael Baltekal-Goodman in collaboration with [art professor] Eugene [misspelled] Neuhaus. Published by The Sather Gate Bookshop. Union Litho. S.F.G. Oakland."
With map is envelope in which issued.
We also have a mounted copy.
"Born in Lithuania on Jan. 7, 1903. Goodman immigrated to the U.S. in 1916. He attended school in Harbin, China before returning to the U.S. in 1921 as a student at UC Berkeley. In 1927 he joined the UC faculty as a lecturer in architecture and remained with the department until his retirement in 1972. After graduating from UC, he worked for architects Timothy Pflueger, Willis Polk, and Bernard Maybeck. At UC he studied art under Ray Boynton, Perham Nahl, and Eugen Neuhaus. During the 1930s he was a supervisor for the WPA while exhibiting locally. Goodman died at his home in Berkeley on April 12, 1991.” (He was known as Michael Goodman.)
This map imitates the style of Jo Mora, who produced 15 similar ones of California locations between 1926 and 1945. It is thought to date from about 1930.Lexicon
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Drawer FB-4, Folder 4c
