This 1948 parody map of Death Valley National Monument is not only funny but actually quite accurate. 
Here's a collage of four small screen shots from the map that I found funny, but I confess that I don't "get" the Coca Cola - Coca Cola scene? Is the cartoon fellow just thirsty and is "dying" for a Coca Cola or is it a reference to something that is over my thick head? 
http://salamandersociety.com/deathvalley...y-DEVA.png

Here's a link to the actual map which is fun to zoom into and around. 
https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4362d.ct00...04,0.787,0

Great find!! I'd seen parts of this map in a DV book many years ago; I can't remember what book (but will follow up if I do recall it), and I hadn't been able to find an image of the entire map back then. Mystery solved!

This map is crazy funny!

Titus Canyon (this road ain't paved)

Dante's View (looks like hell and it is)

Dunes (sandy as hell, if hell is)

Hells Gate (you ain't kiddin')

The Coca-Cola man is a play on a guy crawling across the desert crying "Water! Water!"

(2022-01-23, 06:03 PM)trailhound Wrote: The Coca-Cola man is a play on a guy crawling across the desert crying "Water! Water!"

Thanks trailhound, your explanation really does hold water. Now, this reminds me of a great old ballad start singing when I'm thirsty out in DEVA. 

I have a copy of this same map, but without the whimsical additions. So apparently the company made at least two versions of it.

I’d copy it to share here, but I just put the map in storage because I’ve emptied my office in preparation to moving into my new home later this year on the acreage I’ve developed during the last eight months.

I don’t recall the details of my acquisition of the map. I probably picked it up about 20 years ago or more when I was pretty active collecting ephemera.