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
- 2019
- Accession Number
- 2021-26-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- maps
- Object Name
- Type
- 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
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_2021-26-1
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f8d71b98-a647-4d00-9ed0-15219965d854
