ANTIQUE BIRDS EYEVIEW ILLUSTRATED CARTOON MAP SALVATION ARMY DARK ENGLAND 1890 for Sale

ANTIQUE BIRDS EYEVIEW ILLUSTRATED CARTOON MAP SALVATION ARMY DARK ENGLAND 1890 For Sale

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ANTIQUE BIRDS EYEVIEW ILLUSTRATED CARTOON MAP SALVATION ARMY DARK ENGLAND 1890:
$399.99

THIS sale IS FORA VINTAGE FRAMED MAP TITLED " IN DARKEST ENGLAND, AND THE WAY OUT, BY GENERAL BOOTH, SALVATION ARMY WORK FOR ALL SOCIAL CAMPAIGN, 1890 OR 1910"

THE FRAME IS APPROXIMATELY 19 INCHES BY 13.5 INCHES IN SIZE.

Issued folded, framed(in a contemporary frame,) otherwise a clean item with lovely illustrations from 1890 or 1910. Salvation Army leader william booth's vision of a utopian new world, from his influential book, "In Darkest England" [1890]

Our search on internet showed us that this map was published in 1890 and 1910. We do not know from which of these years this map is from. This is an original map either from 1890 or from 1910.

Again from internet:

William Booth was an evangelical preacher who founded a mission for the poor in London in 1865.

in 1878, he adopted the military model and renamed his organization the Salvation Army. As the organization spawned branches throughout England and in the United States, Booth published his famous work, "In Darkest England and the Way Out", in 1890 (Stade 2003, 34). Booth's plan for alleviating poverty in England was complex, and the book included this allegorical map, "intended to give a birdseye-view" of the Salvation Army's program, "and the results expected from its realization." (Key to the Chart.)

At the bottom, "In the raging Sea, . . . are to be seen the victims of vice and poverty who are sinking to ruin." Those rescued by the officers of the Army are helped along the path to the left toward "the various Refuges, Workshops, and other Establishments for Industrial Labor in the City Colony, many of which are already in existence." From there, another procession of those having "proved themselves worthy of further assistance, are on their way to the Farm Colony . . . far away from the neighborhood of the public-house." And steamers carry them further, "either to the existing Colonies of the British and other Empires, or to the Colony-over-Sea, yet to be established."

Although Booth was a religious man, this allegorical map is entirely secular. The keystone in the arch above the image (where one might envision a cross) bears the words "Work For All." The arch itself is labeled "Salvation Army Social Campaign," and the proposals are easily recognizable as modern social welfare.

William Booth was unrelated to his contemporary Charles Booth, who produced the famous Maps Descriptive of London Poverty.

Sorry for the glare and reflections from the frame glass.

S&H costswill be $49.99by USPS PARCELMail in the US. collects sales tax.

International rates are much higher.

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