Federal Water Shed
- Title:
- Federal Water Shed
- Alternate Title:
- Federal Water Shed
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Appleton, Leroy H.
- Date:
- 1935
- Posted Date:
- 2017-04-14
- ID Number:
- 1242.02
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1242_02.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1920 - 1939
- Subject:
- Money & Finance
Politics & Government
Allegorical
Pictorial - Measurement:
- 28 x 49 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- This is one of two allegorical maps illustrating articles on New Deal spending and taxes that appeared in Fortune Magazine in consecutive months. See also ID #1242.01, "Financial Irrigation of the United States By Funds Appropriated for Emergency Use Under the New Deal" (December 1934).
This map, published in January 1935, shows the "Federal Water Shed," the sources of federal revenue. At the top are the principal sources of water: the "Golden Cloud of 'Profit'", "Vast and Distant Thunderheads of INFLATION," and the "Silver Cloud of Seigniorage." These and the diminished "Old Creek of Customs" are supplemented by "wells sunk from time to time into the water-bearing gravel of business to supplement the supply" - that is, a number of separately-listed taxes. A variety of critical asides are included: "The People's Savings, down ten billions from 1919 by federal suction alone and falling fast"; "Bewildered Horse of Industry;" "R.F.C, Collections: water already over the dam blows back on the winds of heaven."
Henry Luce, the publisher of Time, Life and Fortune, was sharply critical of the New Deal, and personally hostile to Roosevelt. After the President's death, he remarked that it was "my duty to go on hating him." Brinkley 2010, 193.
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Fortune, January 1935.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.