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The maps, historically drawn in smoke-filled backrooms, protected incumbents and created bizarrely shaped districts, such as the “ribbon of shame” along the California coast.

This bold diagonal, cut through the prim Quaker street grid, produced a great many awkwardly shaped blocks, including the pointy trapezoid between the Parkway and the Vine Street Expressway that houses Calder Gardens.

Many exhibitions have been shaped with the purpose not of encouraging commemoration but of spurring progressive political activism.

“It certainly shaped my views in that it’s perfectly acceptable for the woman to earn more,” said Sciuto, 35.

The A-Hed, named for a headline shaped like a capital A, has run on the front page of The Wall Street Journal since 1941.