LeBaron-Bonney Company (sold)
LeBaron-Bonney Company (1938 - 2019) was a novelty publishing company based in Bradford, Massachusetts. The company was formed by the brothers Le Baron Atwood Atherton (July 31, 1905 - 19??) and John / Jack 'Bonney' Atherton (1913 - ). The Athertons were born in Brockton, Massachusetts. Their family owned the 'Atherton Furniture Company'. The LeBaron-Bonney Company was initially a bicycle rental service on Cape Cod, near the Atherton family summer home, but almost immediately changed course and began issuing direct-mail pictorial maps, model ships, and other novelties. The firm's interest in pictorial maps seems to stem from Jack Atherton, who designed and published a map of Martha's Vineyard independently in 1937. Other maps include a 'Pirate Map' of the world, and Map of Maine (1938). In 1959, the firm moved to Haverhill, MA, and changed course again and began restoring vintage Ford and GM cars. They moved again, this time to Amesbury, MA. At some point, the Athertons sold their shares to other interests. LeBaron-Bonney formally declared bankruptcy and went out of business in 2019.
...those lusty days when bold buccaneers roamed the seven seas. - Harbold
The Map of Famous Pirates Buccaneers and Freebooters who roamed the seas during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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This is a 1938 Darby Harbold pictorial map of the world celebrating all things piratical. The map romanticizes the Golden Age of Piracy and its legends: Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach, Jean Lafitte, Henry Morgan, Anne Bonny, Captain Kidd, and Samuel Burgess, among others. (more details)
Pirate fun!
The Map of Famous Pirates Buccaneers and Freebooters who roamed the seas during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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- Digital Map Information
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- File Size: 32.61 MB
- File Type: ZIP / TIFF
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This is a 1938 Darby Harbold pictorial map of the world romanticizing the age of global piracy. The map celebrates the 'luminaries' of the era, including Blackbeard, Jean Lafitte, and Samuel Burgess. Pirate ships attack and conquer vessels on the open ocean throughout the world and then take their 'booty' and either bury it (banners proclaiming sites of buried treasure appear all over the world) or sell it. Short histories of pirate exploits dot the map and provide some understanding of the era's most successful brigands. Also, Harbold comments (in passing) on the different names given to pirates, such as 'buccaneers,' 'corsairs,' 'rovers,' and 'freebooters.' Harbold references the controversy surrounding Captain William Kidd, pirate or pirate-hunter? Her short text states that some believe Kidd to have been unjustly accused of being a pirate because he threatened the business interests of wealthy English citizens. Nonetheless, Kidd was tried and convicted of piracy and executed. Perhaps this episode suggests that piracy is all in the eye of the beholder as it were, and is not as black and white as history suggests. (more details)
...those lusty days when bold buccaneers roamed the seven seas. - Harbold (Proof)
The Map of Famous Pirates Buccaneers and Freebooters who roamed the seas during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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- Digital Map Information
- Suitable for large format printing
- File Size: 44.38 MB
- File Type: ZIP / TIFF
- ICC color profile embedded
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This is a rare printer's proof of the 1938 Darby Harbold pictorial map of the world celebrating all things piratical. The map romanticizes the Golden Age of Piracy and its legends: Edward 'Blackbeard' Teach, Jean Lafitte, Henry Morgan, Anne Bonny, Captain Kidd, and Samuel Burgess, among others. The proof example featuers extraneous content at left that offers unique insights into pictorial map printing, including the relationship between the Lebaron-Bonney Company ('Le Barron-Bonney Co.') and Ernest Dudley Chase, connecting this map to the wider network of pictorial mapmakers. (more details)