Chicago Travel Poster: Brookfield Zoo by Mildred Waltrip, 1936 Size:A0 (841x1189mm) enhancing its utility for visitors

enhancing its utility for visitors and historians

River Wye: Flowing through Hay-on-Wye

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enhancing the map’s whimsical style

Hachures used to indicate mountainous and elevated terrain

Chicago Travel Poster: Brookfield Zoo by Mildred Waltrip, 1936 Size:A0 (841x1189mm) enhancing its utility for visitorsInformation Brookfield Zoo by Mildred Waltrip (1936) is a handsome example of Chicagos mid Depression design culturean antique travel poster that blends friendly clarity with modernist restraint. Waltrip, an American artist and illustrator trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, worked in the orbit of the Federal Art Project and contributed to the citys visual landscape in the 1930s before moving into childrens science illustration in