Porcineograph: One Nation Under Hog

Discover William Emerson Baker’s extraordinary Porcineograph, an 1875 pictorial map that transforms the United States into a pig, complete with a Maine snout, an Alaska tail, and Cuba as a sausage. In this episode of CartoCuriosity, Kevin Brown of Geographicus Rare Antique Maps explores how this colorful chromolithograph became a lavish party favor promoting Baker’s sanitary piggery and the Pure Food Movement. Packed with regional pork dishes, Reconstruction-era politics, and hints of territorial expansion, this rare antique map offers a wonderfully eccentric window into American food history, social reform, and the art of "ge'hog'raphy."