I was at a country auction this weekend and one of the items that came up for bid was an old “map” of Johns Hopkins Hospital by the cartoonist, Richard Q. “Moco” Yardley. The Moco comes from his old nickname, a play on Eskimo.
Yardley drew a number of these fun maps. I know of ones for Baltimore County, the Eastern Shore, Anne Arundel County, and of course, Baltimore City, which was done for the Orioles. Yardley was the Sun’s cartoonist from 1939 to 1969 and did mostly editorial cartoons.
Yardley’s maps are very detailed and have a lot of little “inside” jokes in them. Readers must remember that they were drawn in the 1950’s and things that were common then, can be offensive to some today. With that said, here’s the map I found.
The map references Osler, Halsted and Walsh, but Kelly is missing. You can see the Phipps and Wilmer Clinics and the main building. And as in all of Yardley’s cartoons, there is a little rendering of him, which looks nothing at all like he did in real life!