Hagstrom Map Company

The Hagstrom Map Company was one of the most prominent commercial cartographic publishers in twentieth-century New York, founded by Andrew Hagstrom in 1916 and best known for the detailed street atlases and road maps of New York City and its surrounding region that became standard references for taxi drivers, delivery services, and urban navigators for much of the century. Operating from New York, Hagstrom combined precision street mapping with a commercial sensitivity to popular demand, and the firm expanded its output over the decades to include thematic, educational, and pictorial maps alongside its core street atlas business. The Folklore Music Map represents this latter tendency — Hagstrom as publisher of culturally ambitious popular cartography rather than purely utilitarian street guides. The firm continued in operation through the late twentieth century, its New York street atlases remaining in print long after most commercial map publishers had been displaced by digital navigation.