"The tourist maps of New York in the 1930s visually represented the city as the capital of cultural pluralism, emphasizing the site of both American and 'foreign' cultures a tourist might visit." Blake 2006, 174. "Salloch's tourist map represented the culmination of depictions of New York's neighborhoods as amusing, easily navigable sites where the historic sites and 'ethnic types' shown were available for consumption." Ibid. 172. On first glance, the traditional New York neighborhoods on this map seem filled with stereotypes now found offensive: Chinatown, Ghetto, "Italian Quarters," "Spanish Colony," Harlem. In fact, Salloch was a German artist who fled to the US in 1937 to avoid the Nazis (http://www.georgeglazer.com/maps/newyorkmaps/cartoonnyc.html, accessed August 21, 2016), and he was celebrating his new nation.
