National Porcineographic: a Portrait of America as a Young Hog

Sewing-machine magnate W.E. Baker held a party to celebratethe centennial of the Battle of Bunker Hill, fought nearby; and it was the Corner-Stone Party for a 'Sanitary Piggery', one that Baker believed would inaugurate a filth-free future for the whole hog-rearing industry. Each of the 2.500 guests received a copy of this peculiar map of the United States as a souvenir of the event.

THIS PORCINEOGRAPH is copied from the Census Surveys of 1870, adding only 3 feet of territory (?) resting on Cuba, Mexico and Sandwich Islands, and the Hydro-Cephalus from Canada. Congressional Legislation is required to PERFECT this GEHOGRAPHY.

Via Strange Maps