Oliver, James Frank (sold)
James Frank Oliver (October 20, 1916 - April 20, 2006) was an American artist, cartoonist, and writer. Born in Dallas, Oliver worked as a newspaper cartoonist for the New Orleans Times Picayune, was a successful commercial artist in Dallas, and a published travel writer. Oliver published a book of articles entitled Texas! Discovering the Lone Star State with Frank Oliver. Another of his published books was titled Our Comic Friend the Prairie Dog and the Story of Prairie Dog Town, Texas!. He died of cancer on April 20, 2006.
Highlights everything that is the World's Biggest, Best, and Finest in Texas.
A Texan's Map of the United States [of Texas].
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This is a rare 1949 Frank Oliver pictorial map of the United States from a Texan's point of view. Naturally, Texas dominates the majority of the continental U.S. and reaches from the Rio Grande River to the Canadian border, labeled simply as the Arctic Circle. The oversized depiction of Texas is filled with vignettes, all illustrating something that is the world's 'finest', 'best', or 'largest', all of which surrounds the land owned by TexOak Flooring Company, situated at the 'Heart of the World's Largest Pine and Oak Timberland'. Some of these vignettes tout aspects of life in Texas, such as Dallas as being home to the 'World's best dressed and most beautiful women'. Texas is also, apparently, home to the 'World's tallest people (and tales)', the 'World's most diversified weather', and 'Millionaires by the score'. Oliver also promotes Texas as possessing the world's 'finest cattle land', 'largest wheat fields', 'largest piece of private proppity', and the 'biggest and juiciest melons'. A farmer working the 'World's finest farmland' is illustrated telling his worker to 'Just hold the seed in your left hand and the. Sickle in your right… '. Perhaps the most amusing of these vignettes, however, references the open spaces of the Texas Panhandle and promotes the region as the 'World's best treatment for claustrophobia'. (more details)