Manhattan, Vol. 1, No. 1: A Night-Club Map of Harlem

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The first issue of Manhattan Magazine featuring the centerfold illustration, "A Night-Cub Map of Harlem" by E. Simms Campbell. The cartoon map provides a nightlife guide to Harlem with caricature renditions of night clubs, restaurants, musicians, entertainers, vendors, and patrons. The viewer looks southwest over the streets of Lenox Avenue and Seventh Avenue, with Central Park at 110th street at the upper left corner, the Harlem River at the bottom left, the "Harlem Moon" in the upper right corner, and a compass rose and a police station at bottom right. In between are 131st, 133rd, 134th, 135th, and 142nd streets, running east to west. Depicted are the Radium Club, Cotton Club with Cab Calloway's band, the Savoy Ballroom, Connie's Inn, Lafayette Theatre, Log Cabin, Theatrical Grill, Gladys Bentley at Gladys' Clam House, Club Hot-Cha, and Small's Paradise. Cartoon figures do popular dances the Lindy Hop, the Bump, and Snakehips.

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