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Source Description
"This is one of two allegorical maps illustrating articles on New Deal spending and taxes that appeared in Fortune Magazine in consecutive months. This map, published in December 1934, shows the 'Financial Irrigation of the United States' ... Money from taxes and the sale of government securities at the top flows into the U.S. Treasury and 'reservoirs' for the Public Works Administration and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and from there through a series of overlapping pipes to dozens of new government agencies. Some agencies are 'irrigated' by all three sources, others by only one or two. The explanation of the map emphasizes that there is no specific limit to the amount by which the funds [for the PWA and RFC] could be increased."--P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography.
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Document identity
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f1884t267
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Financial irrigation of the United States by funds appropriated for emergency use under the New Deal
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obj
dtoType
map
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1
Source metadata
id
f1884t267
contentType
map
stage
normalized
title
Financial irrigation of the United States by funds appropriated for emergency use under the New Deal
description
"This is one of two allegorical maps illustrating articles on New Deal spending and taxes that appeared in Fortune Magazine in consecutive months. This map, published in December 1934, shows the 'Financial Irrigation of the United States' ... Money from taxes and the sale of government securities at the top flows into the U.S. Treasury and 'reservoirs' for the Public Works Administration and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and from there through a series of overlapping pipes to dozens of new government agencies. Some agencies are 'irrigated' by all three sources, others by only one or two. The explanation of the map emphasizes that there is no specific limit to the amount by which the funds [for the PWA and RFC] could be increased."--P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography.
date
["[1934]"]
year
1934
rights
No known copyright restrictions.
rightsUri
No known restrictions on use.
reuseAllowed
no restrictions
language
English
identifierLocal
06_01_018475
creators
Appleton, LeRoy H.
institution
Boston Public Library
collections
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
subjects
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945--Maps
United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945--Maps
United States--Politics and government--1933-1945
United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945
New Deal, 1933-1939--Maps
Government spending policy--United States--20th century--Maps
Tax and expenditure limitations--United States--20th century--Maps
subjectsGeographic
North and Central America
United States
genreBasic
Maps
genreSpecific
Pictorial maps
typeOfResource
Cartographic
country
United States
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largeImageUrl
pageCount
1
source
import
pubPlace
[New York]
publisher
Fortune Magazine
Source extras
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sf268508b
collectionArkId
41688024w
schema:latitude
38
schema:longitude
-98
extent
1 map : color ; 27 x 41 cm, on sheet 36 x 57 cm
notes
Allegorical map depicting the distribution of funds through an irrigation system from the U.S. Treasury to all government agencies created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
Side panel text describes the administration's spending and includes an alphabetical list of departments receiving New Deal funds.
Relief shown pictorially.
Includes text and list of acronyms and names of corresponding government agencies receiving funds.
Text regarding the federal budget, the New Deal, and the growth of national debt on verso.
Pages 65-68 from December 1934 issue of Fortune magazine.
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no
dcId
f1884t267
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map
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1
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0
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photo
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432bc5934c9d1446