National Geographic speaks with Hornsby about vintage Santa map
National Geographic interviewed University of Maine geographer Stephen Hornsby about a vintage map of Santa’s journey around the world. The map, titled “A World of Good Wishes at Christmastime,” was produced in 1955 by General Drafting Company, a now-defunct maker of road maps, according to the article. It appears in Hornsby’s latest book,“ Picturing America: The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps.” “It’s just a classic,” Hornsby said of the map. “It’s great fun and very imaginative.” Like many pictorial maps of the mid-20th century, the map is brimming with American confidence, according to Hornsby. “I’m English and to me this just seems so American,” Hornsby said. “It reflects that secure, middle-class American world view of the 1950s.”