{"id":1785764,"date":"2018-06-07T09:15:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785764"},"modified":"2018-06-07T09:15:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T13:15:33","slug":"for-sale-original-copy-of-chicago-gangland-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/06\/for-sale-original-copy-of-chicago-gangland-map\/","title":{"rendered":"For Sale: Original Copy of Chicago Gangland Map"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Map of Chicago’s Gangland from Authentic Sources<\/em> (Bruce Roberts, 1931). Map, 71\u00d757 cm. Daniel Crouch Rare Books.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Much is being made of the sale by Daniel Crouch Rare Books<\/a> of an original copy of a pictorial map of Prohibition-era Chicago. Published in 1931, A Map of Chicago’s Gangland from Authentic Sources<\/em> 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<\/a> this weekend; Daniel Crouch is asking \u00a320,000 for it<\/a>. But if you don’t have that kind of money, other copies do exist in libraries, such as Chicago’s Newberry Library<\/a>, which I believe has sold facsimile reprints of the map. See coverage from Atlas Obscura<\/em><\/a>, CBS Chicago<\/a> and the Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>. [Tony Campbell<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[477,211],"tags":[506,1226,212,460,1225],"class_list":["post-1785764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-crime","category-map-collecting","tag-chicago","tag-gangsters","tag-map-fairs","tag-pictorial-maps","tag-prohibition","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3063,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/10\/maggiolo-planisphere-of-1531-to-be-auctioned\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785764,"position":0},"title":"Maggiolo Planisphere of 1531 to be Auctioned","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 October 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"A 16th-century portolan chart is being auctioned later this month at TEFAF New York.\u00a0\"The map, which was created by\u00a0a Genoese cartographer named Vesconte Maggiolo in 1531, is one of the first depictions of America\u2019s eastern seaboard. 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