Norman Lawrence Garbush (March 7, 1897 - May 10, 1972) was a mostly Minnesota-based cartographer and map publisher. The details of his life are difficult to determine and he remarkably seems to have disappeared from census and other records for several decades. Garbush was raised in Stillwater, Minnesota (near Minneapolis) and received training as a civil engineer and surveyor, producing at least one map of his native region in the 1920s (OCLC 882500843). At some point in the mid-late 1940s, he looks to have relocated to New York City, very likely for military service in the Second World War. Around this time, he began publishing his best known work, 'Norman's Simplified Maps of New York City,' which was issued in several editions (all undated) from roughly the late 1940s to the 1960s. However, Garbush appears to have only lived in the city for a short time, returning to Minnesota by the early 1950s. From there, he continued to publish his New York City maps with local partners, as well as branching out to issue similar maps of Miami, South Florida writ large, Denver, Dallas, and Los Angeles (being an outsider to these places and not knowing colloquial placenames, some of these maps failed to impress locals despite their comprehensiveness). Aside from his independent map publishing, Garbush looks to have worked at the Minnesota Department of Highways in the latter part of his career.